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From: Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:11:58 -0400
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] four Sanskrit comic books

One last update:

Thanks to Thomas Kintaert, three more high quality Sanskrit comic books (two ACK—Kalidasa, Vikramaditya—and one Katha Bharti—Gita chapter 10) are also now up and linked on Vitus’ list, bringing the total ACK Sanskrit coverage to nine items (interestingly, with two versions of Kalidasa). Combined with the additional materials at the “Comics in Sanskrit” user on Archive and on Chandamama, that should be enough to keep anyone with an interest in this sort of reading material busy for quite a while.

I’m very pleased with the result of this journey, thanks all again!

Tyler

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill@gmail.com> wrote:

Many thanks for everyone's responses on this Sanskrit comic book thread!

To sum up so far:

1) Priya knew of 4 more Amar Chitra Katha in Sanskrit (Kālīdāsa [sic], Kaṇṇagi, Hakka-Bukka,  and Napoleon Bonaparte 😂) bringing the current total to 8.

• I've just noticed that these were uploaded by a user called "Comics in Sanskrit", who also uploaded numerous other Sanskrit-translation items, including two Tinkle competition winners ('80 and '84) and various Japanese manga (a bunch of Doraemon, plus several not-safe-for-work romances!)
  

2) Vitus created a handy list on Archive to organize access to the 8 Amar Chitra Kathas, for starters: https://archive.org/details/@vangrmr/lists/1/sanskrit-comics (the general name suggests that other series are can be included, as well). Let's hopefully continue uncovering and uploading more!

3) Asko pointed out my mistake (thanks!), so now we know that the Ramayana item is in fact Amar Chitra Katha, as well. Too bad that people digitize these items without any front matter, leaving us these puzzles to solve.

• I've now deleted my original upload with the misleading identifier ("mystery"), and the new item is at https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-ramayana-sanskrit (@Vitus: Can you please update your list with this new one?)

4) Madhav and Satyanad remind us that the similar publication Chandamama is extremely well organized online, in Sanskrit (https://www.chandamama.in/sanskrit/) and other languages.

5) Joel is interested in creating new comic and/or kids books based on Sanskrit or other classic texts. (He will almost certainly be interested in the above "Comics in Sanskrit" items!)

I'm also still curious to hear what others may know about Pandit Gulam Dastgir, and/or the general history of these Sanskrit Amar Chitra Katha translations. Perhaps there's an article out there somewhere?

Kind wishes,

Tyler