[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Michael Meyer papers was: Request for paper by Malamoud

Tue Sep 5 17:38:41 UTC 2023

Harry Spier

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From: Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be>
Date: Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Michael Meyer papers was: [INDOLOGY] Request for paper by
Malamoud
To: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>

It works again at least now...

https://michaelmeyer.fr/sanskrit
Sanskrit Dictionaries

Last updated April 15, 2023

This page allows you to search a Sanskrit term across most of the
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The available dictionaries are given in the table below.
Year Name Language
1832 Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1846 Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1847 Bopp *Glossarium Sanscritum* la
1855 Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch de
1856 Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1861 *Abhidhānaratnamālā* of Halāyudha sa
1866 Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1866 Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français fr
1872 Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1st ed.) en
1873 *Vācaspatyam* sa
1873 Grassmann Wörterbuch zum Rig Veda de
1879 Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung de
1884 Bergaigne Études sur le lexique du Ṛgveda fr
1884 Lanman’s Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary en
1885 Whitney Roots en
1886 *Śabdakalpadruma* sa
1887 Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch de
1890 Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1891 Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1893 Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1899 Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (2nd ed.) en
1900 *Śabdasāgara* Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1904 Index to the Names in the *Mahābhārata* en
1906 Caland & Henry Termes techniques de l’*Agniṣṭoma* fr
1912 The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects en
1928 Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch de
1932 Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français fr
1951 The Purāṇa Index en
1953 Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary en
1954 Renou Vocabulaire du rituel védique fr
1957 Renou Terminologie grammaticale du Sanskrit fr
1958 Renou Études sur le vocabulaire du Ṛgveda fr
1959 Apte Enlarged Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary en
1962 Aufrecht’s *Catalogus Catalogorum* en
1965 *Kṛdantarūpamālā* sa
1966 Indian Epigraphical Glossary en
1974 Meulenbeld’s Sanskrit Names of Plants en
1975 Puranic Encyclopedia en
1978 Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions en
1993 *Mahābhārata* Cultural Index en
2000 *Tāntrikābhidhānakośa* fr/en/de Input Conventions

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ए e ऐ ai ओ o औ au
अं ṃ ṁ .m अः ḥ .h
क k ख kh ग g घ gh ङ ṅ f “n
च c छ ch ज j झ jh ञ ñ ~n
ट ṭ .t ठ ṭh .th ड ḍ .d ढ ḍh .dh ण ṇ .n
त t थ th द d ध dh न n
प p फ ph ब b भ bh म m
य y र r ल l व v
श ś z ष ṣ .s स s ह h
ळ ḻ ł _l

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Thomas Malten *et al.* at Cologne University
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with some emendations of my own. The enlarged edition of Apte’s dictionary
is derived from the data prepared at the University of Chicago
<https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/apte>.

I prepared indices for the following dictionaries:

   - Whitney * Roots* <https://michaelmeyer.fr/whitney-roots>
   - Renou * Terminologie grammaticale du sanskrit*
   <https://michaelmeyer.fr/renou-terminologie>
   - Renou * Vocabulaire du rituel védique*
   <https://michaelmeyer.fr/renou-vocabulaire>
   - Renou *Études sur le vocabulaire du Ṛgveda*
   - *Tāntrikābhidhānakośa* (vols. 1 and 2) <https://michaelmeyer.fr/tak>
   - Bergaigne *Études sur le lexique du Ṛgveda*
   <https://michaelmeyer.fr/bergaigne-lexique>
   - Caland & Henry *Termes techniques de l’Agniṣṭoma*

Le 5 sept. 2023 à 09:02, Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be>
a écrit :

The server is indeed now suddenly disconnected...! Hoping it is
temporarily...
The first link enabled a multiple search in nearly all the Sanskrit
dictionaries available online (except the NWS).
For the rest, here samples of what there was
<Renou - Terminologie grammaticale Index.docx>
<Renou - Voc. rituel védique Index.docx>
<Whitney Roots Index.docx>

Le 5 sept. 2023 à 02:36, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com> a écrit :

These links to Michael Meyer's papers provided by Christophe Vielle don't
seem to work.
Harry Spier

On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 3:24 AM Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> We can be grateful to Michaël Meyer for having developed such useful
> tools:
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/sanskrit
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/whitney-roots
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/renou-terminologie
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/renou-vocabulaire
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/bergaigne-lexique
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/tak
>
> https://michaelmeyer.fr/vp-concordance
>
> etc. vide
> https://michaelmeyer.fr
>
>
> Le 1 sept. 2023 à 20:12, Michaël Meyer via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> Dear Ram, dear all,
>
> Here it is.
> * English translation: https://michaelmeyer.fr/blobs/Malamoud_Cooking.pdf
> * French original: https://michaelmeyer.fr/blobs/Malamoud_Cuire.pdf
>
> Best,
> Michaël Meyer
>
> Le ven. 1 sept. 2023 à 19:42, Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi <
> c.ram-prasad at lancaster.ac.uk> a écrit :
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Does anyone have a copy of the paper/chapter by Charles Malamoud, “By
>> Heart: Notes on the Interplay between Love and Memory in Ancient Indian
>> Poetry” in his book *Cooking the World: Ritual and Thought in Ancient
>> India*, trans. David White?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Ram
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
>>
>> Fellow of the British Academy
>>
>> Distinguished Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Religion
>>
>> Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion
>>
>> Lancaster University
>>
>> U.K.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>> Andrew Ollett via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Date: *Friday, 1 September 2023 at 14:56
>> *To: *Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
>> *Subject: *[External] [INDOLOGY] Instructional Professor of Sanskrit at
>> the University of Chicago
>>
>> *This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking
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>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>
>>
>> We are re-running the search that I posted last year for an Instructional
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>>
>> Andrew
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