In case it is of interest to anyone else, here are links to volumes 1 thru 19 of Mahabharata on archive.org.


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From: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mahabharata CE
To: Howard Resnick <hr@ivs.edu>


Hi Howard,
Here are the links to pdfs of  volumes 1 thru 19 on  archive.org
vol. 1 https://archive.org/download/SukthankarMbhAdiparvan20141026/Sukthankar_Mbh_%C4%81diparvan_2014-10-26.pdf
vol.2 https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.283220/2015.283220.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 4 https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327556/2015.327556.The-Mahabharata.pdf

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM Howard Resnick <hr@ivs.edu> wrote:
My sincere gratitude.

On Mar 27, 2024, at 12:32 PM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com> wrote:

Ill send you the links later today

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 12:05 PM Howard Resnick <hr@ivs.edu> wrote:
Greetings Harry!

I’m afraid I am rather inept at internet searches and am having trouble finding the BORI MBh at archive.org. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Howard

On Mar 26, 2024, at 9:19 PM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Howard,
A quick look at archive.org shows that many of the earlier volumes are downloadable .  I see up to vol. 19 by Sukthankar.
Harry Spier


On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear list members,
Shouldn't many of the volumes of the BORI critical edition now be in the public domain?.
This wikipedia page on the Indian copyright law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_India
states that for works published before 1958 the Indian Copyright Act, 1914 is applicable.
And the Indian copyright act of 1914 (link below)
pdf page 20 (pdf page 16) states:
3. The term for which copyright shall subsist shall, except as otherwise exressly provided by this Act, be the life of the author and a period of 50 years after his death:. . . .

Harry Spier


On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 7:51 PM Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear Scholars,

Is there any way to get a digital version of the B.O.R.I. Critical Edition of Mahabharata? If not, are the hard copies that are for sale more durable than the old ones which seem to fall apart with use?

Thanks and best wishes,
Howard

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