21.11.14
Thanks, dear colleagues! Bagchi's translation is available here but not the original.
I just relate some old anecdotes. We owe it to the poet Tagore that Bagchi translated the work into English. Lévi made such an impression upon Tagore that the latter requested Lévi to train Bagchi in his own way. Lévi and Bagchi became legends at Santiniketan.
I also thank Professor Houben who was instrumental in my becoming a member of Indology.
Best wishes
DB
The pdf files are now online at:
https://archive.org/details/Levi1923PreAryenEtPreDravidien
https://archive.org/details/Levi1925PtolemeeNiddesaBrhatkatha
Those who prefer to read the first in English may find it here: https://archive.org/details/prearyanandpredr035083mbp. (Somebody else furnished that one.)
I can report that the basic uploading process is very quickly done; it is entirely up to the uploader what metadata are filled in, so I have used some of the same descriptors as figure in Zotero. I don't know why some of the metadata get placed in one place in the interface, while other in another.
I also don't know why the pages cannot be read in the online reader (at least not on my side), but I assume at least the pdf files can be downloaded.
It would be nice to have all of Lévi's articles online like this. But it still feels like a bit too much overhead for each of us to engage in randomly, all the more so because I believe that Archive.org does not effectively control against duplicates of works that have already been uploaded. Maybe we could vote on which Indologists deserve most to be honored with attempts at furnishing their entire lists of publications at Archive.org (I suppose focusing on those from whom a Kleine Schriften or such has never been compiled), and then work in little groups on individual authors?
Best,
Arlo Griffiths
From: wujastyk@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:04:43 +0100
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Lévi (1923, 1925)
To: arlogriffiths@hotmail.com
CC: indology@list.indology.infoThanks, Arlo! I'm so glad my suggestion has been thought to have merit.But I know it adds quite some overhead, and I think that swapping documents is more important, so I don't want this suggestion to slow down people's helpfulness unduly.
Best,
DominikOn 20 November 2014 15:21, Arlo Griffiths <arlogriffiths@hotmail.com> wrote:Dear colleagues,
Thanks to Stefan Baums and Reinhold Grünendahl, I now have the requested papers (and more). I will heed Dominik's advice and upload them to Archive.org tomorrow, then send the links to the list.
Best wishes,
Arlo Griffiths
EFEO/Jakarta
From: arlogriffiths@hotmail.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:52:16 +0000
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Dear colleagues,
Would anyone be able to furnish a pdf of the original French version of the following:Lévi, Sylvain. 1929. “Pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian in India.” In Pre-Aryan and Pre-Dravidian in India, by Sylvain Lévi, Jean Przyluski, and Jules Bloch, translated by Prabodh Chandra Bagchi, 61–126. Calcutta: University of Calcutta.
It should be available in Journal Asiatique, t. 203, 1923, pp. 1-57, but this volume does not appear to be available on Gallica.
If somebody could furnish "Ptolemée, le Niddesa et la Bṛhatkathā", from Études Asiatiques II, Paris 1925, pp. 1-55, I shall also be grateful.
Thank you.
Best wishes,
Arlo Griffiths
EFEO/Jakarta
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