[INDOLOGY] The online catalogue of MS collection of Anand Ashram Pune

[Bill Mak]

Thanks, AJ. This is great news. I was impressed to see that they have over 1300+ jyotiṣa mss alone. Though the catalogue is not available online except for a few categories, if I am not mistaken, they are charging at 8 INR (or 1 USD!) per folio.

When I was in India last January looking for jyotiṣa manuscripts at the Asiatic Society, National Library (Calcutta) and various archives in Varanasi, the circumstances were often difficult and complicated. Though I did find most of the things I was looking for at the end thanks to all the helps I received, I came to the conclusion that one of the best archives of Sanskrit jyotiṣa mss is in fact Pingree’s collection at the John Hay Library, Brown University!
 
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> On Nov 19, 2018, at 8:06 PM, AJ Misra via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> Dear list members,
> 
> It has just been brought to my notice that Anand Ashram Pune have begun making their catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, including the costs for acquiring copies, online on their website at http://www.aanandashram-sanstha.org/Manuscript_Summary.html <http://www.aanandashram-sanstha.org/Manuscript_Summary.html>. 
> 
> This is a great initiative by Mr Vasant Apte (managing trustee). I visited Anand Ashram back in May-June 2017 and at the time, I had a chance to talk to Mr Apte and recommended that he convince the board of trustees to fund a digitisation project, starting with an online catalogue of the 15,000+ manuscripts in their collection. I am delighted to hear that they have begun this task. I think the web catalogue is a little buggy so please feel free to contact Mr Apte directly at 
> anandashramsan at gmail.com <mailto:anandashramsan at gmail.com>. I think the more contact/feedback smaller private institutions receive from scholars, the more inclined they'd be to make their collection available to us.
> 
> I attach the letter Mr Apte very kindly sent me below.
> 
> <Mail from Anandashram Sanstha.jpeg>
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anuj  
> -- 
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