[INDOLOGY] INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 26, Issue 1

Sun Mar 1 19:31:27 UTC 2015

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Lavanya
> Call for Papers
> Uberoi Seminar at Shawnee State University, OHIO, USA
> We are excited to announce the interdisciplinary conference, Indian Cultural Heritage in the Global Age, which will take place at The Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio, October 29-30, 2015. The conference brings together academic research on India, its religious and cultural history. India is home to a number of religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, collectively referred to as the Dharma traditions. As India gains economic momemtum and enters the global arena, its cultural traditions and religious practices adopt to change, and reach countries outside of India. While Yoga, and Vegetarianism are ubiquitous with India, other aspects of Indian culture are not as well known. In a global world, it is more than ever necessary to understand India, its culture and religions.  Hence we seek papers on all aspects of Indian culture and religions. 
> Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference.
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> Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to uberoiseminar at shawnee.edu or lvemsani at shawnee.edu by May 29, 2015 (11:59pm). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June  29, 2015 and the program will be announced by July 29, 2015. 
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>   1. Re: Manuscripts in India (Manu Francis)
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> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 16:40:10 +0100
> From: Manu Francis <manufrancis at gmail.com>
> To: Martin Gansten <martin.gansten at pbhome.se>
> Cc: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Manuscripts in India
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> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I was recently in Chennai and it appears that it is easier to have access
> to the MSS of the GOML than to obtain a book published by OUP!
> 
> At the GOML, I was able to get 5 MSS within 15 minutes and to photograph
> them.
> 
> As for OUP, on Anna Salai, this is now a show-room only. You can see the
> books. You can touch them. You can smell them. But ... you cannot buy them!
> A new regulation has been in force for the last 8 months preventing OUP to
> directly sell its books. You now have to go to a bookshop or a distributor.
> If the book is not there, they might be able to order it for you to OUP.
> 
> Good to know also, the TNSDA (Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology)
> has started to upload pdfs of its own publications and pictures/scans of
> paper and palm-leaf MSS on a dedicated website:
> http://210.212.62.26/index.htm
> 
> The website is not really user-friendly. The scans are not always good, but
> some are excellent. The focus is on Tamil texts for the moment, but MSS in
> Sanskrit and other languages might appear in the future.
> This is in any case an excellent initiative!
> 
> With very best wishes.
> --
> Emmanuel Francis
> Charg? de recherche CNRS, Centre d'?tude de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (UMR
> 8564, EHESS-CNRS, Paris)
> http://ceias.ehess.fr/
> http://ceias.ehess.fr/index.php?1725
> http://rcsi.hypotheses.org/
> Associate member, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture (SFB 950,
> Universit?t Hamburg)
> http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/index_e.html
> https://cnrs.academia.edu/emmanuelfrancis
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> 2015-02-25 21:46 GMT+01:00 Martin Gansten <martin.gansten at pbhome.se>:
> 
>> I'd like to confirm the positive report shared by Dominik earlier this
>> year (below). His post encouraged me to contact Koba Tirth by email, and I
>> found everone involved extremely helpful. It took them a few weeks to find
>> the manuscripts of the texts I was looking for, but then I had given them
>> several alternative titles. All in all I received PDFs containing nearly
>> 600 pages of high-quality scans. Unlike Dominik, I also received a bill,
>> for Rs. 600, but I was more than happy to pay. The only problem turned out
>> to be that the amount was too small (!) to be handled by the transfer
>> service I used, so I had to top it up with a minor donation; but again, I
>> was happy to do so.
>> 
>> Martin Gansten
>> 
>> 
>> Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> A counter-example.  The largest MS library in the world is the Gyan Tirth
>> at Koba <http://kobatirth.org/jainlibrary.aspx>, just on the outskirts of
>> Ahmedabad. Yes, I mean it.  250k MSS, making it four times larger than the
>> Vatican library or the BN in Paris.  I was there in late 2011.  The faculty
>> and staff could not have been kinder or more helpful.  Everything
>> computerized and efficient.  I was given PDFs on my data plug within half
>> an hour of asking.  No money.  And I was told, "next time, no need to come
>> so far; just send email, we'll send PDF as attachment."   Utterly amazing.
>> 
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