[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Readers: overview

Mon Jun 26 14:03:37 UTC 2017

Dear All,

Let me mention an undeservedly neglected reader that I grew up on at my Alma Mater, Charles University in Prague. It is mistakenly referred as being published in Czech, whereas it is, apart from Sanskrit, conceived as a tri-lingual resource (at the same time Czech-Russian-English), that makes it accessible to a wider public. It was only after the untimely demise of prof. Friš (1903–1955) that the glossary was posthumously edited, supplemented and prepared for publication by Vincenc Pořízka (1905–1982). (Just for curiosity sake, since there is a syllabic consonant r in Czech, corresponding to the Sanskrit vowel ṛ, no additional  ì appearing in the otherwise admirable list below should be added.) 

Friš, Oldřich. Sanskrtská čítanka. Sanskritskaya khrestomatiya. Sanskrit Reader. I. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1954.

Friš, Oldřich. Sanskrtská čítanka. Sanskritskaya khrestomatiya. Sanskrit Reader. II. Slovník. Slovar. Vocabulary. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1956.

Recently published in a new edition as

Frish, Oldrzhikh. Sanskrtská čítanka. Sanskritskaya khrestomatiya. Sanskrit Reader. I. Bibliotheca Sanscritica, Tom I. Moskva: Knigoizdatelstvo «ABV», 2015.

Frish, Oldrzhikh. Sanskrtská čítanka. Sanskritskaya khrestomatiya. Sanskrit Reader. II. Slovník – Slovar - Vocabulary. Bibliotheca Sanscritica, Tom II. Moskva: Knigoizdatelstvo «ABV», 2015.

Best regards,

Jan Filipský,

Praha

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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Readers: overview

Dear all,

as it is my custom not to read mail in weekends I read these messages only now. But this is really interesting. While Joh. Schmidt and some recent things were new to me, I can also make some additions, although many of them are just curiosa and not seen by me:

Best,

Klaus

Bühler, G.: Third Reading Book for the Use of High Schools. With a glossary by Vishnu S. Pandit. 122+103 p. Bombay 1868, 3rd ed. Bombay 1888.

Carey, William: A Sanskrit Chrestomathy (title?) containing extracts from the Hitopadeśa, Daśakumāracarita and Bhartṛhari, Serampur 1804.

Dimmitt, C. & J. A. B. Van Buitenen: Classical Hindu Mythology. A Reader in Sanskrit Purāṇas. 13+373 p. Philadelphia 1978 (with transl. & glossary).

Friš, Oldřich: Sanskrìtská čítanka. 1-2. Praha 1954-56 (Reader and glossary, ed. by V. Pořízka, in Czech).

Gajendragadkar, A. B. & R. D. Karmarkar: First Year Sanskrit Poetic Selections. No. 2. 329+45 p. Bombay 1927.

------    Intermediate Sanskrit Selections. No. 2. 287 p. Bombay 1927. – see J. Charpentier, Monde Or. 23, 1929, 315f.

Gelabert y Gordiola, Juan: Lengua sanskrita: crestomatia y gramática. 28+424 p. Madrid 1890 and several editions.

Harkness, H. & Visvamba Sastri: A Sanscrit Primer, or First Book of a series designed to assist native students in the acquirement of a correct and grammatical knowledge of this language. 2+78+3 p. Madras 1827 (in Tamil letters [not grantha?]).

------    The Second Book of the series… 128 p. Madras 1828. 

------    The Third Book of the series… 120 p. Madras 1828.

------    The same in 3 vols., (or 6 vols), ed. in Telugu letters. Madras 1827.

Hjortshøj, Erik Pihlkjær: Introduction to Sanskrit. 1. Reader. Part 1. Texts. 4+2+182 p. Aarhus 1984 (Vet25, Hit, Pt, Mbh, KSS, poems).

Kane, P. V.: Saṁskṛtagadyāvaliḥ: Selections from Sanskrit prose. 228 p. Bombay & London 1931.

------    Saṁskṛtapadyāvaliḥ: Selections from Sanskrit poetry with brief notes. 156 p. Bombay & London 1934.

Kellner, Hermann Camillo: ed. Lied vom König Nala. Erstes Lesebuch für Anfänger im Sanskrit. 10+252 p. Lp. 1885.

Leupol, Louis, with assistance of Em. Burnouf: Selectae e Sanscriticis scriptoribus paginae. Choix de morceaux Sanscrits traduits, annotés, analysés. P. 1867 (Manu, Mbh etc.).

Pullè, Francesco Lorenzo: Piccola Crestomazia sanscrita. 1873.

------    Crestomazia sanscrita e vedica. 1878.

Suru, N. G.: A Sanskrit Reader. 192?.

Tsuji, Naoshiro: Sanskrit Tokuhon. 313 p. T. 1975 (Sanskrit Reader).

Vasconcelos de Abreu, G.: Manual para o estudo do sãoskrito classico.  2. Chrestomathia. 70 p. Lisboa 1883 (C. de Harlez, Le Muséon 3, 1884, 158f.).

Vidyabhushana, V.: Saṁskṛta-pāṭha-mālā. Sanskrit Reader. 1-2. 7th ed. of pt. 1 & 5th of pt. 2. Calcutta 1922.

Yates, William: The Sunscrit Reader, or easy Introduction to the Reading of the Sunscrit Language. In five parts I. Select Sentences II. Dialogues III. Duties of Young person IV. Fables V. Poetical Extracts. 64 p. Calcutta 1821 (in Bengali letters, very rare), 2nd ed. (in Devanāgarī) Calcutta 1822.    

Klaus Karttunen

South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies

Asian and African Studies, Department of World Cultures

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00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND

Tel +358-(0)2941 4482418

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 <mailto:Klaus.Karttunen at helsinki.fi> Klaus.Karttunen at helsinki.fi

On 24 Jun 2017, at 16:50, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info> > wrote:

Dear all,

Thank you so much for these contributions! I will give it another week or so, and will then put together everything into one master list.

All the very best,

   Antonia

On 24 June 2017 at 13:12, rrocher via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info> > wrote:

Great!  Thanks, 

Rosane 

On 6/24/17 6:13 AM, Christophe Vielle wrote:

Here are a few links to digital editions of Lassen's Anthologia Sanscritica : 

1838

http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/bsb10572570.html

Bavarian State Library <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01352> 

http://lib.ugent.be/europeana/900000065690

Ghent University Library <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01378> 

1865

http://lib.ugent.be/europeana/900000065679

Ghent University Library <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01378> 

1868

http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/bsb10572572.html

Bavarian State Library <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01352> 

http://lib.ugent.be/europeana/900000136746

Ghent University Library <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/contributor/P01378> 

For more, see

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/search?query=Anthologia%2BSanscritica <http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/search?query=Anthologia%2BSanscritica&offset=20> &offset=20

And already on Indologica:

Lassen, Christian (1800-1876)

Anthologia sanscritica : glossario instructa / in usum scholarum ed. Christianus Lassen. - Bonnae ad Rhenum : Koenig, 1838. - XIV, 358 S.

URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=ebs9AAAAcAAJ (Google Books. Digitalisiert: 28. Aug. 2009, Vorlage: Univ. Gent)
Dateiformat: G; PDF

Anthologia Sanscritica : glossario instructa / in usum scholarum edidit Christianus Lassen. Denuo adornavit Ioannes Gildemeister. - Editio altera, novis curis retractata. - Bonnae ad Rhenum : Apud Adolphum Marcum, 1868. - XVI, 300 S.

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014298759 (University of Michigan, Hathi Trust Digital Library)
Dateiformat: G; PDF; TXT

Le 24 juin 2017 à 09:24, Asko Parpola via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info> > a écrit :

The first edition was by Lassen (I have a personal copy):

Lassen, Christianus, 1838. Anthologia sanscritica glossario instructa. In usum scholarum edidit Christianus Lassen. Bonnae ad Rhenum: Impensis H. B. Koenig. xv, 360 pp. 

A second edition edited by Gildemeister came out in 1865:

Lassen, Christian, 1865. Anthologia sanscṛitica glossario instructa, in usum scholarum edita. (1. Aufl. Bonn 1838.) Denuo adornavit Joannes Gildemeister. Bonn: A. Marcus. xvi, 290 pp. 

It was critically reviewed by Albrecht Weber, Literarische Central-Blatt 31 (1865): 810-811. The review is reprinted in Weber's Indische Streifen II (Berlin: Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1869): 292-296.

A third revised edition came out in 1868:

Lassen, Christian, 1868. Anthologia sanscṛitica glossario instructa. Denuo adornavit Ioannes Gildemeister. Editio altera novis curis retractata. Bonn: A. Marcus. xvi, 301 pp.    

With best wishes,

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:38 AM, rrocher via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info> > wrote:

There is also Christian Lassen's Anthologia Sanscritica Glossario Instructa in Usum Scholarum, Bonn, Marcus, 1868, which bills itself a second, augmented edition of an anthology by the same title by Joannes Gildemeister.  Lassen's is in archive.org <http://archive.org/>  and Hathi Trust, but I am unable to find the first edition by Gildemeister, which does not appear in WorldCat.   

RR

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Here is the reader I grew up on at the University of Brussels: 

Thumb, Albert, Handbuch des Sanskrit, II. Teil: Texte und Glossar von Richard Hauschild, Heidelberg, Carl Winter, 1953. 
It fits in the category of general readers. 

Best wishes, 
Rosane Rocher 

On 6/22/17 3:41 PM, Antonia Ruppel via INDOLOGY 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

 <https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Malaya+Gangopadhyay&cm_sp=det-_-plp-_-author> Gangopadhyay, 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> 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=> 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%20Kleine%20Sanskrit-Chrestomathie.&f=false )

Hoefer, A., Sanskrit‐Lesebuch mit Benutzung handschriftlicher Quellen (1849)

(download: https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=LisMAAAAYAAJ <https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=LisMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false> &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)

 <https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Bhikkhu+KL+Dhammajoti&cm_sp=det-_-plp-_-author> Dhammajoti, 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> https://archive.org/details/vedischechresto01delbgoog )

Sanskrit ‘Readers’ that feature collections of texts in translation

 <http://b-ok.org/g/J.%20F.%20Staal> J. F. Staal (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 <http://www.indische-bibliothek.de/> )

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