[INDOLOGY] Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies

[Rosane Rocher]

Dear Patrick and Don,

Thank you for this great news and for the hard work that went into it. 
It is another reason for all of us to be appreciative of all that you 
and your team at UT have been doing to foster dharmaśāstra studies.

Rosane

On 6/18/21 2:35 PM, Donald R Davis via INDOLOGY wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am pleased to inform you about a new repository of searchable 
> electronic texts of Dharmaśāstra commentaries and digests, hosted at 
> the University of Texas. During the pandemic, Patrick Olivelle has 
> been hard at work transcribing several important texts (thousands of 
> pages!), often comparing editions and providing text-critical notes. 
> Although we intend to make these open texts (CC BY-SA) available later 
> through a central repository such as GRETIL or SARIT, the proofreading 
> process for texts of this size is time-consuming. Rather than wait, 
> however, we wanted to share the initial transcriptions of six texts, 
> portions of which have been checked. They are offered to the 
> Indological community as Google docs which can be downloaded in 
> various formats. That format may be slower to load, but it makes 
> corrections by a group easy. In most cases, we have also been able to 
> provide links to PDFs of standard editions of the same texts for easy 
> cross-referencing. In any case, we hope the availability of these 
> e-texts will facilitate future research on Dharmaśāstra.
>
> Please join me in a public expression of thanks to Patrick for his 
> typically tireless scholarly efforts to make these texts available. 
> All inquiries, suggestions, etc. should be sent to me, but users are 
> warned that the texts are offered as-is and that we are making 
> continuous updates to the files.
>
> http://sites.utexas.edu/sanskrit/resources/dharmasastra/ 
> <http://sites.utexas.edu/sanskrit/resources/dharmasastra/>
>
> Best,
>
> Don Davis
> Professor & Chair
> Department of Asian Studies
> University of Texas at Austin
>
>
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