[INDOLOGY] four Sanskrit comic books

Wed Apr 9 17:25:13 UTC 2025

As a general offer I am involved with several translation, archival and
e-book printing initiatives including via the Internet Archive and also
pertaining to global children's educational initiatives.

So if anyone has specific ideas of creating comic books based on classic
texts (probably with the input of some AI tooling) I would be interested in
discussing.

Best,

Joel (https://connection.mit.edu/people/joel-dietz/)

On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 at 04:35, Vitus Angermeier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> it is easy to set up lists on archive.org:
> https://archive.org/details/@vangrmr/lists/1/sanskrit-comics
>
> I will gladly add further items if they show up.
>
> Best wishes,
> Vitus Angermeier
> Am 09.04.2025 um 02:17 schrieb Priya Nambrath via INDOLOGY:
>
>
> Dear Tyler,
>
> Thanks for sharing the Sanskrit versions of those ACK publications - it's
> always a pleasure to browse through these! I just wanted to alert you to a
> few more translated titles residing on Internet Archive. These are listed
> below, and the last two are unfortunately missing their title page.
>
> Kannagi: https://archive.org/details/kannagi_ack_sanskrit/mode/2up
> Napoleon Bonaparte:
> https://archive.org/details/ack-napoleon-bonaparte-sanskrit/mode/2up
> Hakka and Bukka: https://archive.org/details/ack-hakka-bukka-skt
> Kalidasa:
> https://ia800308.us.archive.org/28/items/kaalidaasa-skt-ack/kaalidaasa-ack.pdf
>
> I don't know if more such Sanskrit translations exist, but it will
> certainly be nice to have them all together in one place.
>
> Best wishes,
> Priya
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM Tyler Neill via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> For over a decade, I've had in my possession two rare Amar Chitra Katha
>> comic books in Sanskrit (गंगा and भगवान् बुद्धः), given out by Sadananda
>> Das to students in his spoken Sanskrit summer course (Heidelberg, 2013). I
>> also discovered another one already digitized online (हनुमान्), plus one
>> more Sanskrit comic book (रामायण) that's not Amar Chitra Katha. Two of the
>> Amar Chitra Katha items clearly note the role of Pandit Gulam Dastgir, who
>> I believe was the translator of all three.
>>
>> Checking now, I'm surprised to see that no one else has yet made these
>> items easily available online, e.g., on Archive. They are great learning
>> tools, if nothing else.
>>
>> To fix this, I've now digitized my two and uploaded all four to Archive:
>> https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-ganga-sanskrit
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-ganga-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXJ4poOh1$>
>> https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-bhagavan-buddhah-sanskrit
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-bhagavan-buddhah-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXKZfmWNx$>
>> https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-hanuman-sanskrit
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-hanuman-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXEQlFg4K$>
>> https://archive.org/details/mystery-comic-book-ramayana-sanskrit
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/mystery-comic-book-ramayana-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXJ-FVS6S$>
>>
>> Please enjoy and share widely. Let me know if there are any copyright
>> concerns, or if I can improve the metadata to make them easier to find.
>> Also, if you have or know of additional Sanskrit comic books of this sort,
>> please be in touch, maybe I can continue organizing better access.
>>
>> Kind wishes,
>> Tyler
>>
>>
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