Dear Harry,

Yes, the purāas themselves in the Nag Publishers reprints would be out of copyright, because they are photographic images of the Vekaeśvara Press editions. So the pagination and formatting and typesetting is that of the Vekaeśvara Press editions. The copyright pages of the Nag Publishers reprints say "[copyright symbol] Nag Publishers," but this can only really apply to the few added pages of front matter and the large added indices.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Harry Spier <hspier.muktabodha@gmail.com> wrote:
David Reigle wrote:

 As we know, but not stated on the copyright pages of the Nag Publishers printings of the purāas, they are photographic reprints of the Vekaeśvara Press editions published in manuscript form at Bombay in the early 1900s.

Does that mean that with the exception of the added indices that this publication is not under copyright?

Harry Spier