[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit reader

[Antonia Ruppel]

Dear Dominik,

Thank you for also bringing Brough to my attention!

I think he, and the various other Readers in existence, have many strengths
and present excellent choices of texts, but at least those that don't focus
on one particular genre often either have no or far too few notes to help
students along. If, as we were talking about at an earlier point in this
exchange, we want to give students regular little success experiences, then
the right amount of notes, given in a format they are used to and right
there on the page, to me seems the best way forward.

The 'right amount of notes' will be interpreted differently by different
people; to me it means commenting on anything irregular, but also on
anything that, while regular, is difficult to recognise for whatever
reason, providing vocabulary, and briefly explaining matters of context.
The challenge then is to provide all this without making such a wealth of
notes confusing rather than helpful.

Thank you also for the link to his archive! Some of those items would be
fascinating to access.

All best,
    Antonia

On 17 June 2017 at 17:17, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another lesser-known reader is John Brough's 1978 Selections from
> Classical Sanskrit Literature
> <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Selections-Classical-Sanskrit-Literature-Brough/dp/0728600501/>.
> Also in roman script.  Like everything Brough did, it's original and
> valuable.
>
> Best,
> Dominik
>
> NB: Brough's archive <http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/library/archive/brough>,
> including interesting unpublished materials.
>
> ​
> --
> Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
> ​,​
>
> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> ​,​
>
> Department of History and Classics
> <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> ​,​
> University of Alberta, Canada
> ​.​
>
> South Asia at the U of A:
>
> ​sas.ualberta.ca​
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>
>
> On 16 June 2017 at 01:28, Antonio Ferreira-Jardim via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> 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 ;-)
>> >>
>> >> academia
>> >>
>> >> Linkedin
>> >>
>> >> Edanz
>> >>
>> >> YogaTrade
>> >>
>> >> Modern Yoga Research
>> >>
>> >> #yogabodyANU2016 symposium
>> >>
>> >> Politics beyond the yoga mat
>> >>
>> >> The Sanitising Power of Spoken Sanskrit
>> >>
>> >> Imagining Sanskrit Land
>> >>
>> >> Ep1 - Imagining Sanskrit Land
>> >>
>> >> Ep 2 - Total-am
>> >>
>> >> Ep 3 - Jalam ≠ Chillum
>> >>
>> >> Ep 4 - It's Time to get Married
>> >>
>> >> A Day in our Ashram
>> >>
>> >> Stop animation short film of Shakuntala
>> >>
>> >> Forced to Clean Human Waste
>> >>
>> >> One of my favourite songs
>> >>
>> >> The Philosophy of Cycling
>> >>
>> >> Plato's Cave
>> >>
>> >> Endangered Languages MOOC
>> >>
>> >> Blackfella-Whitefella
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > A N T O N I A   R U P P E L
>> > The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit
>> > Out Now: www.cambridge-sanskrit.org
>> >
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