Dear all,

The conversations about Sanskrit Readers on-list and the many truly kind and helpful emails I received off-list suggested to me that an inventory of these books might be useful. Please find below all the Readers I am aware of, with pdf download links wherever available, or alternatively lists of the libraries that (according to WorldCat) hold a copy.

If anyone has anything to add to this list (more titles, more links, pdfs, other information), I would greatly appreciate it if you could send it to me, and in a few weeks' time, I will send a more complete version of this inventory to the Indology list.

All the very best,

    Antonia

General Readers

 

Gangopadhyay, M., Bhasabodhini: a Sanskrit Reader (Sri Garib Das Oriental Series) (1991, 2003) (held by the British Library, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt/Zentrale, Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library)

 

Brough, J., Selections from Classical Sanskrit Literature (1978)

(available to buy)

 

Mylius, K., Chrestomathie der Sanskritliteratur (1978, current imprint 2005)

(available to buy)

 

Warder, A. K., Sanskrit prose reader (1965) (3 vols: texts, vocabulary, notes)

pdfs of all three volumes will soon be available

 

Mahalinga Sastri, Y., A First Reader of Sanskrit (1947)

(held by: SOAS and the U of Hawai’i at Manoa)

 

Banerji, H.C, The New Method Sanskrit reader (1933)

(not available for download, held by: SOAS)

Böhtlingk, O., Sanskrit-Chrestomathie (1909)

(download: https://archive.org/details/sanskritchresto00bhgoog )

 

Liebich, B.,  Sanskrit-Lesebuch. Zur Einführung in die altindische Sprache und Literatur (1905)

(download: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_uyMYAAAAYAAJ )

Liebich, B.,  Präparierheft zu Liebich Sanskrit-Lesebuch (1906)

(held by: Harvard College Library)

 

Lanman, C. R., A Sanskrit Reader (1883)

(download: https://archive.org/details/asanskritreader01lanmgoog )

 

Schmidt, J., Kleine Sanskrit-Chrestomathie (1868)

(download:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZznXmxwLBZIC&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=•+Johannes+Schmidt:+Kleine+Sanskrit-Chrestomathie.&source=bl&ots=7AzbQl3zZD&sig=2TFDr8XRqByIa4JxRqow8w9GIG4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigpMjlgtLUAhWe14MKHbCDBqAQ6AEILzAC#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%A2%20Johannes%20Schmidt%3A%20Kleine%20Sanskrit-Chrestomathie.&f=false )

 

Hoefer, A., Sanskrit‐Lesebuch mit Benutzung handschriftlicher Quellen (1849)

(download: https://books.google.com.ua/books?id=LisMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false )

 

Readers with a focus on particular texts or genres:

 

Hock, H. H., An Early Upanishadic Reader (2006)

(available to buy)

 

Dhammajoti, B., Reading Buddhist Sanskrit Texts (2015?)

(not available as a pdf, currently no copies available for sale)

 

Gonda, J., A Sanskrit Reader, containing seventeen epic and puranic texts, with a glossary (1935) (held by: Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek München, Bibliothek der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Royal Danish Library - Copenhagen / CUL (DKB), Danish Union Catalogue and Danish National Bibliography)

 

Vedic Readers

 

Macdonell, A. A., A Vedic Reader for Students (1917)

(download: https://archive.org/details/vedicreaderforst00macd )

 

Hillebrandt, A., Vedachrestomathie (1885)

(does not seem to be available as a pdf online; available to buy as a modern reprint, held by various libraries)

 

Windisch, E., Zwölf Hymnen des Rgveda mit Sāyaṇa's Commentar (1883)

(download: https://archive.org/details/zwlfhymnendesr00sayauoft

 

Delbrück, B., Vedische Chrestomathie (1874)

(download: https://archive.org/details/vedischechresto01delbgoog )

 

 

Sanskrit ‘Readers’ that feature collections of texts in translation

 

J. F. Staal (ed.), A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians (1972)

(download: http://b-ok.org/book/2029976/428be2)

 

Kretschmer, H. Sanskrit Reader 1: A Reader in Sanskrit Literature (2015)

(print-on-demand, information: www.indische-bibliothek.de)

 

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