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

Sun Feb 22 18:02:50 UTC 2026

Dear Radha,
Thank you for your thanks.
Its mister Spier not professor Spier.  But please call me Harry.
Harry Spier

On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 12:57 PM Blinderman, Radha <
rblinderman at g.harvard.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth,
>>>>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
>>>>> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities
>>>>> and service."
>>>>> -- Collective Agreement
>>>>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf>
>>>>> 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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