[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Announcement: launch of Searchable Aggregate Library of Sanskrit Etexts

Dominik Wujastyk wujastyk at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 05:16:36 UTC 2026


Great initiative!  Thank you so much, Harry.

Best,
Dominik


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On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 at 22:39, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list members,
> I am extremely pleased to announce the launch of the "Searchable Aggregate
> Library of Sanskrit Etexts" newly created by myself from the major
> sanskrit  etext collections on the web, whose licensing permits their
> copying for non-commercial use.
>
> Link: *searchable-sanskrit-library.org
> <http://searchable-sanskrit-library.org>*
>
> 1) It contains 1501 etexts giving a cross section of sanskrit texts from
> the vedic texts onward to pre-modern . The etexts are copied from the
> following collections.
> GRETIL sanskrit etext collection: 804 etexts
> SARIT sanskrit etexts in transliteration: 54 etexts
> University of Texas Dharma etexts and Upanishad etext collections: 86
> etexts
> Digital Corpus of Sanskrit vedic prose collection (containing many TITUS
> texts): 58 etexts.
> Muktabodha etext collections  with Creative Commons licencing (not
> including its joint venture etexts) : 499 etexts
>
> 2) There is a single clickable index to the entire collection in sanskrit
> letter order.
>
> 3) The search engine allows searchs in normal mode or with regular
> expressions. The results are displayed in what's known as "search in files"
> format, which shows all the results in a single page.  Clicking on a result
> opens the relevant etext to that line in a new tab.
>
> If clicking on a line doesn't open the file up, then your browser malware
> protection may be the problem and you will have to add the url *searchable-sanskrit-library.org
> <http://searchable-sanskrit-library.org>* as a safe site.
>
> 4) Care has been taken to give credit to the institutions and
> transcribers.  All files have their original headers and the clickable
> index to the etexts  lists in addition to the titles, the institution and
> the transcribers names that created the etext.
>
> It is hoped that this new etext library will be both a  location  to
> search for etexts but also given that the collection is a cross-section of
> the literature from the earliest times onwards and regular expression
> searchs can be done, it is hoped that it will also be a research tool.
>
> This is a private initiative unaffiliated with any organisation.
>
> Thank you,
> Harry Spier
>
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