I'd like to confirm the positive report shared by Dominik earlier this year (below). His post encouraged me to contact Koba Tirth by email, and I found everone involved extremely helpful. It took them a few weeks to find the manuscripts of the texts I was looking for, but then I had given them several alternative titles. All in all I received PDFs containing nearly 600 pages of high-quality scans. Unlike Dominik, I also received a bill, for Rs. 600, but I was more than happy to pay. The only problem turned out to be that the amount was too small (!) to be handled by the transfer service I used, so I had to top it up with a minor donation; but again, I was happy to do so.

Martin Gansten


Dominik Wujastyk wrote:

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A counter-example.  The largest MS library in the world is the Gyan Tirth at Koba, just on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. Yes, I mean it.  250k MSS, making it four times larger than the Vatican library or the BN in Paris.  I was there in late 2011.  The faculty and staff could not have been kinder or more helpful.  Everything computerized and efficient.  I was given PDFs on my data plug within half an hour of asking.  No money.  And I was told, "next time, no need to come so far; just send email, we'll send PDF as attachment."   Utterly amazing. 

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