[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit reader

[Antonia Ruppel]

Dear Antonio,

Thank you - that is much appreciated! I know Gonda's (and Brough's)
readers, but not Warder's - let's see whether I am resourceful enough to
find a copy.

Thanks again,
  and all the very best,
     Antonia

On 16 June 2017 at 08:28, Antonio Ferreira-Jardim <antonio.jardim at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Antonia,
>
> Can I suggest taking a look at AK Warder's often overlooked (and
> unfortunately devanagari-devoid) "Sanskrit Prose Reader"? He includes
> an excellent collection of texts and notes. The publisher - University
> of Toronto - are unfortunately very unhelpful at providing copies but
> resourceful researchers can find copies elsewhere. :)
>
> Another useful reader which again lacks devanagari and whose
> explanations are somewhat less than helpful is Gonda's Sanskrit Reader
> - which focuses on the Epics & Puranas.
>
> I have a feeling that both of these texts would have proved more
> popular if they had been in devanagari but with the advances in OCR
> and word processing - that should be easy to rectify.
>
> Kind regards,
> Antonio Ferreira-Jardim
> UQ
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY
> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> > Dear Patrick,
> >
> > Thank you for this great suggestion! As I said, I'm thinking of pairing
> up
> > the book with a website on which to put the texts I can't include if I
> aim
> > at having a Reader less voluminous than the Petersburg Dictionary:-).
> Still,
> > at least some short-ish excerpts from modern Sanskrit texts might be just
> > the thing to include at the end of the physical reader.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >    and all the best,
> >         Antonia
> >
> > On 16 June 2017 at 04:49, patrick mccartney <psdmccartney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Antonia,
> >>
> >> Perhaps, for the 2nd volume of the reader (if you include all the
> >> wonderful suggestions of the members of the list, it seems you'll need
> a few
> >> volumes at least), you might consider including more recent Sanskrit
> texts -
> >> one that comes to mind is the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights.
> >> Including a Sanskrit version, it has been translated into 370 languages.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> All the best,
> >>
> >> Patrick McCartney, PhD
> >> Fellow
> >> School of Culture, History & Language
> >> College of the Asia-Pacific
> >> The Australian National University
> >> Canberra, Australia, 0200
> >>
> >>
> >> Skype - psdmccartney
> >> Phone + Whatsapp:  +61 414 954 748
> >> Twitter - @psdmccartney
> >>
> >>
> >> bodhapūrvam calema ;-)
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >> YogaTrade
> >>
> >> Modern Yoga Research
> >>
> >> #yogabodyANU2016 symposium
> >>
> >> Politics beyond the yoga mat
> >>
> >> The Sanitising Power of Spoken Sanskrit
> >>
> >> Imagining Sanskrit Land
> >>
> >> Ep1 - Imagining Sanskrit Land
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
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