[INDOLOGY] four Sanskrit comic books

[Tyler Neill]

One more update on the Sanskrit comic books, actually:

There's yet another set of them on Archive, by creator:"Kashi Maharaj
Kumari".
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Kashi%20Maharaj%20Kumari%22

Comparing this with the ones discussed before, there are 4 new ones here
(Dr Ambedkar, Maharana Pratap, Chatrapati Shivaji, Valmiki), for a new
total of 13 identified online. Happy reading!

Kind regards,
Tyler


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM <indology-request at list.indology.info> wrote:

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> From: Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill at gmail.com>
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> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:11:58 -0400
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] four Sanskrit comic books
> One last update:
>
> Thanks to Thomas Kintaert, three more high quality Sanskrit comic books
> (two ACK—Kalidasa, Vikramaditya—and one Katha Bharti—Gita chapter 10) are
> also now up and linked on Vitus’ list, bringing the total ACK Sanskrit
> coverage to nine items (interestingly, with two versions of Kalidasa).
> Combined with the additional materials at the “Comics in Sanskrit” user on
> Archive and on Chandamama, that should be enough to keep anyone with an
> interest in this sort of reading material busy for quite a while.
>
> I’m very pleased with the result of this journey, thanks all again!
>
> Tyler
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Many thanks for everyone's responses on this Sanskrit comic book thread!
>>
>> To sum up so far:
>>
>> 1) Priya knew of 4 more Amar Chitra Katha in Sanskrit (Kālīdāsa [sic],
>> Kaṇṇagi, Hakka-Bukka,  and Napoleon Bonaparte 😂) bringing the current
>> total to 8.
>>
>>    - I've just noticed that these were uploaded by a user called "Comics
>>    in Sanskrit <https://archive.org/details/@comics_in_sanskrit/uploads>",
>>    who also uploaded numerous other Sanskrit-translation items, including two
>>    Tinkle competition winners ('80 and '84) and various Japanese manga (a
>>    bunch of Doraemon, plus several not-safe-for-work romances!)
>>
>>
>> 2) Vitus created a handy list on Archive to organize access to the 8 Amar
>> Chitra Kathas, for starters:
>> https://archive.org/details/@vangrmr/lists/1/sanskrit-comics (the
>> general name suggests that other series are can be included, as well).
>> Let's hopefully continue uncovering and uploading more!
>>
>> 3) Asko pointed out my mistake (thanks!), so now we know that the
>> Ramayana item is in fact Amar Chitra Katha, as well. Too bad that people
>> digitize these items without any front matter, leaving us these puzzles to
>> solve.
>>
>>    - I've now deleted my original upload with the misleading identifier
>>    ("mystery"), and the new item is at
>>    https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-ramayana-sanskrit (
>>    *@Vitus*: Can you please update your list with this new one?)
>>
>>
>> 4) Madhav and Satyanad remind us that the similar publication Chandamama
>> is extremely well organized online, in Sanskrit (
>> https://www.chandamama.in/sanskrit/) and other languages.
>>
>> 5) Joel is interested in creating new comic and/or kids books based on
>> Sanskrit or other classic texts. (He will almost certainly be interested in
>> the above "Comics in Sanskrit" items!)
>>
>> I'm also still curious to hear what others may know about Pandit Gulam
>> Dastgir, and/or the general history of these Sanskrit Amar Chitra Katha
>> translations. Perhaps there's an article out there somewhere?
>>
>> Kind wishes,
>> Tyler
>>
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