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

Sun Feb 22 16:52:00 UTC 2026

Hi Harry,

This is quite a fun tool, thank you for putting it together. I was playing
around and entered some terms that occur in many, many places in
many works. I found that when checked against my own collection of etexts
in a BBEdit search that it seems that the Searchable Aggregate Library does
not return all instances of a term in all works. I checked this
against GRETIL etexts that are listed as being a part of the SEL but did
not appear as results when I searched words that are contained in those
works. I guess this is a potential bug?

Friendly greetings,
Charles

Prof. Dr. Charles DiSimone
Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies & Indology
Department of Languages and Cultures
Ghent University

On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> University of Alberta
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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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