[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Readers: overview

Jesse Knutson jknutson at hawaii.edu
Fri Jun 23 02:53:01 UTC 2017


Thanks Antonia this is a very helpful compilation.

On Jun 23, 2017 3:00 AM, "George Thompson via INDOLOGY" <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Antonia,
>
> Staal's Reader isn't really a reader that reproduces the Sanskrit texts of
> the Sanskrit grammarians.  It reproduces discussions on the Sanskrit
> grammarians by European scholars [in English, German, and French].  There
> is a lot of Sanskrit in it, of course, but the major focus of the book is
> on European scholarship on the Sanskrit grammarians, not on the texts of
> the Sanskrit grammarians themselves.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> George
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> The conversations about Sanskrit Readers on-list and the many truly kind
>> and helpful emails I received off-list suggested to me that an inventory of
>> these books might be useful. Please find below all the Readers I am aware
>> of, with pdf download links wherever available, or alternatively lists of
>> the libraries that (according to WorldCat) hold a copy.
>>
>> If anyone has anything to add to this list (more titles, more links,
>> pdfs, other information), I would greatly appreciate it if you could send
>> it to me, and in a few weeks' time, I will send a more complete version of
>> this inventory to the Indology list.
>>
>> All the very best,
>>     Antonia
>>
>>
>> *General Readers*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Gangopadhyay*
>> <https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Malaya+Gangopadhyay&cm_sp=det-_-plp-_-author>*,
>> M., Bhasabodhini: a Sanskrit Reader (Sri Garib Das Oriental Series) (1991,
>> 2003)* (held by the British Library, Niedersächsische Staats- und
>> Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/835469286?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbv.de%2Foclc_opc_link%2Foclc_opc_link.php%3FHILN%3D40%26OCLCNum%3D835469286%26checksum%3D7eab3aa1a57577aaf44d2453e397e229&title=Niedersa%CC%88chsische+Staats-+und+Universita%CC%88tsbibliothek+Go%CC%88ttingen&linktype=opac&detail=ZXW%3ANiedersa%CC%88chsische+Staats-+und+Universita%CC%88tsbibliothek+Go%CC%88ttingen%3AAcademic+Library>,
>> Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt/Zentrale
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/835469286?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gbv.de%2Foclc_opc_link%2Foclc_opc_link.php%3FHILN%3D65%26OCLCNum%3D835469286%26checksum%3D998253bfd69f83997caf0022d4fa7e66&title=Universita%CC%88ts-+und+Landesbibliothek+Sachsen-Anhalt+%2F+Zentrale&linktype=opac&detail=DEULB%3AUniversita%CC%88ts-+und+Landesbibliothek+Sachsen-Anhalt+%2F+Zentrale%3AAcademic+Library>,
>> Brigham Young University
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/835469286?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.lib.byu.edu%2Fuhtbin%2Fisbn-search%2Fisbnbegin8170307759isbnend%26checksum%3D70e7a041dbb172031093c5118a846295&title=Brigham+Young+University&linktype=opac&detail=UBY%3ABrigham+Young+University%3AARL+Library> Harold
>> B. Lee Library)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Brough, J., Selections from Classical Sanskrit Literature (1978) *
>>
>> (available to buy)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Mylius, K., Chrestomathie der Sanskritliteratur (1978, current imprint
>> 2005) *
>>
>> (available to buy)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Warder, A. K., Sanskrit prose reader (1965) (3 vols: texts, vocabulary,
>> notes)*
>>
>> pdfs of all three volumes will soon be available
>>
>>
>>
>> *Mahalinga Sastri, Y., A First Reader of Sanskrit (1947)*
>>
>> (held by: SOAS and the U of Hawai’i at Manoa)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Banerji, H.C, The New Method Sanskrit reader (1933)*
>>
>> (not available for download, held by: SOAS)
>>
>>
>> *Böhtlingk, O.,** Sanskrit-Chrestomathie** (1909)*
>>
>> (download: https://archive.org/details/sanskritchresto00bhgoog )
>>
>>
>>
>> *Liebich, B.,  **Sanskrit-Lesebuch. Zur Einführung in die altindische
>> Sprache und Literatur** (1905) *
>>
>> (download: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_uyMYAAAAYAAJ )
>>
>> *Liebich, B.,  Präparierheft zu Liebich Sanskrit-Lesebuch (1906)*
>>
>> (held by: Harvard College Library)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Lanman, C. R., A Sanskrit Reader (1883)*
>>
>> (download: https://archive.org/details/asanskritreader01lanmgoog )
>>
>>
>>
>> *Schmidt, J., **Kleine Sanskrit-Chrestomathie** (1868)*
>>
>> (download:
>>
>> https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZznXmxwLBZIC&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=
>> •+Johannes+Schmidt:+Kleine+Sanskrit-Chrestomathie.
>> &source=bl&ots=7AzbQl3zZD&sig=2TFDr8XRqByIa4JxRqow8w9GIG4&hl
>> =en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigpMjlgtLUAhWe14MKHbCDBqAQ6AEILzAC#v=
>> onepage&q=%E2%80%A2%20Johannes%20Schmidt%3A%20Klei
>> ne%20Sanskrit-Chrestomathie.&f=false )
>>
>>
>>
>> *Hoefer, A., **Sanskrit‐Lesebuch mit Benutzung handschriftlicher Quellen**
>> (1849)*
>>
>> (download: https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=LisMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=
>> frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )
>>
>>
>>
>> *Readers with a focus on particular texts or genres:*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Hock, H. H., An Early Upanishadic Reader (2006) *
>>
>> (available to buy)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Dhammajoti
>> <https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Bhikkhu+KL+Dhammajoti&cm_sp=det-_-plp-_-author>,
>> B., Reading Buddhist Sanskrit Texts (2015?)*
>>
>> (not available as a pdf, currently no copies available for sale)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Gonda, J., A Sanskrit Reader, containing seventeen epic and puranic
>> texts, with a glossary (1935) *(held by: Universitätsbibliothek
>> Würzburg
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/466061098?page=frame&url=https%3A%2F%2Fkatalog.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de%2FTouchPoint%2Fworldcat.jsp%3Focn%3D466061098%26checksum%3Dc55686dc97741ee92f25fe50d251ad92&title=Universita%CC%88tsbibliothek+Wu%CC%88rzburg&linktype=opac&detail=G9W%3AUniversita%CC%88tsbibliothek+Wu%CC%88rzburg%3AAcademic+Library>,
>> Universitätsbibliothek München
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/466061098?page=frame&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopac.ub.uni-muenchen.de%2FTouchPoint%2Fworldcat.jsp%3Focn%3D466061098%26checksum%3D0ca4e2767e01f38af28ccea4c017dd29&title=Universita%CC%88tsbibliothek+Mu%CC%88nchen&linktype=opac&detail=DELMU%3AUniversita%CC%88tsbibliothek+Mu%CC%88nchen%3AAcademic+Library>,
>> Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universität Berlin
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/466061098?page=frame&url=http%3A%2F%2Fopac.hu-berlin.de%26checksum%3Db2aa949bbc4ef46d93d444ec8cce11a9&title=Bibliothek+der+Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t+Berlin&linktype=opac&detail=FBU%3ABibliothek+der+Humboldt-Universit%C3%A4t+Berlin%3AAcademic+Library>,
>> Royal Danish Library - Copenhagen / CUL (DKB)
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/466061098?page=frame&url=https%3A%2F%2Frex.kb.dk%2Fprimo-explore%2Fsearch%3Fvid%3DNUI%26checksum%3D6e0d8b626845e481a3c17adc6c3636fc&title=Royal+Danish+Library+-+Copenhagen+%2F+CUL+%28DKB%29&linktype=opac&detail=DKB%3ARoyal+Danish+Library+-+Copenhagen+%2F+CUL+%28DKB%29%3AState+or+National+Library>,
>> Danish Union Catalogue and Danish National Bibliography
>> <https://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/466061098?page=frame&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbibliotek.dk%2Feng%2Flinkme.php%3Fref%3Dworldcat%26ccl%3Dwcx%253D466061098%26checksum%3Df0424333231bbdebd6b5629596e49b55&title=Danish+Union+Catalogue+and+Danish+National+Bibliography&linktype=opac&detail=DKDLA%3ADanish+Union+Catalogue+and+Danish+National+Bibliography%3ALibrary+Networks+or+Processing+Center>
>> )
>>
>>
>>
>> *Vedic Readers*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Macdonell, A. A., A Vedic Reader for Students (1917)*
>>
>> (download: https://archive.org/details/vedicreaderforst00macd )
>>
>>
>>
>> *Hillebrandt, A., Vedachrestomathie (1885)*
>>
>> (does not seem to be available as a pdf online; available to buy as a
>> modern reprint, held by various libraries)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Windisch, E., **Zwölf Hymnen des Rgveda mit Sāyaṇa's Commentar** (1883)*
>>
>> (download: https://archive.org/details/zwlfhymnendesr00sayauoft
>>
>>
>>
>> *Delbrück**, B., **Vedische Chrestomathie **(**1874**)*
>>
>> (download: https://archive.org/details/vedischechresto01delbgoog )
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Sanskrit ‘Readers’ that feature collections of texts in translation*
>>
>>
>>
>> *J. F. Staal* <http://b-ok.org/g/J.%20F.%20Staal>* (ed.), A Reader on
>> the Sanskrit Grammarians (1972)*
>>
>> (download: http://b-ok.org/book/2029976/428be2)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Kretschmer, H. Sanskrit Reader 1: A Reader in Sanskrit Literature (2015)*
>>
>> (print-on-demand, information: www.indische-bibliothek.de)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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