[INDOLOGY] four Sanskrit comic books

[Madhav Deshpande]

Several years ago, I used to subscribe to a Sanskrit version of the popular
publication चंदामामा. I had accumulated a sizable collection of these
issues. Later I donated the whole collection to a Sanskrit teacher teaching
at Smskrita-Bharati. These issues were a good reading material for modern
Sanskrit compositions.

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

[Residence: Campbell, California, USA]


On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 6:57 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://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-bhagavan-buddhah-sanskrit
> https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-hanuman-sanskrit
> https://archive.org/details/mystery-comic-book-ramayana-sanskrit
>
> 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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