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

[Madhav Deshpande]

This is absolutely amazing.

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 Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 8:21 AM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thank you to everyone who both online and offline expressed their
> appreciation for the new searchable aggregate sanskrit library.
> searchable-sanskrit-library.org .
>
> The use of this new library has far exceeded my expectations.  In the
> first 24 hours of the launch it was visited by 160 *different* users. But
> more importantly after this initial surge, the high and wide use of the
> library continued.  In the last 4 days it has been visited by 118 different
> visitors from 80 cities and towns in 21 different countries. Hundreds of
> visits per day. (These are real user visits not spam).
>
> I think it is clear from the amount and type of usage (much use of the
> search engine) that this has become and will be a basic tool for the field.
>
> Thank you,
> Harry Spier
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 12:16 AM Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Great initiative!  Thank you so much, Harry.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dominik
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
>> University of Alberta
>>
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>> 3.01
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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