Greetings INDOLOGY Committee:

When I wrote my master’s thesis in Oriental Studies at UPenn, over forty years ago, I wanted it to be a reference tool for researchers to use to find māhātmya, or sthalapurāṇa, manuscripts (and secondary literature) relating, in large part, to place-legends of pilgrimage sites in India.  The thesis, titled "Māhātmyas:  A Preliminary Descriptive Survey (Including a List of Māhātmyas Compiled from Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum)," is now available in digitized, downloadable format on the Penn Libraries’ ScholarlyCommons website.  (Please see the attached screenshot.)

It is the list of just over 700 manuscripts from Aufrecht’s three-volume catalogue (and my notes and bibliography relating to them) that I think the members of INDOLOGY might find useful for their own research.

I am not a member of your group, so I am writing to ask that if you think your members would be interested in this reference tool, you please share the bibliographic information for it with them.  Please also feel welcome to share my email address in case anyone has questions that I might (hopefully) be able to answer.

Thank you sincerely,
Linda Laurence (née Wiig), M.A., M.L.I.S.
Honolulu
Email:  LLinda [at] hawaiiantel [dot] net