Dear Friends

1.
Perhaps someone on this list can help: I have looked in vain for some time for hard copies of two books that I might be able to buy. (I hasten to say that this is basically motivated by pustakalobha, since i do have access to the contents of the books in photocopies).

Paul Kent Andersen, Studies in the Minor Rock Edicts of Aśoka

Ulrich Schneider: Die grossen Felsen-Edikte Aśokas

Any hints to where copies might be available would be very welcome (just write me privately, no need to clog the list with this).

Many thanks, in advance, and of course, I won't be surprised to hear that after all no copies are available; they're not the kind of books which would have been published in many copies to begin with, I imagine.

2.
Now, the other thing I am in search of -- hard copy or scan, I have no access to this at all so far, and as far as I could see no nearby library has it either -- is

Thaplyal, Kiran Kumar, 2009, A New Asokan Inscription from Ratanpurwa (Jñāna-Pravāha Monograph, I), Varanasi.

A scan would be very welcome! (Yes, I know that Falk studied it as well.)

Many many thanks in advance!
Jonathan

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