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

Sun Feb 22 17:57:33 UTC 2026

Dear Professor Spier,

Thank you for this amazing resource you created! It is so immensely helpful.

Gratefully,
Radha

On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM Charles DiSimone via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
>>>> University of Alberta
>>>>
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>>>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
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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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