As always, a labor of love by Patrick, and a great service to the scholarly community by him and you, Don. Congratulations to all your team and associates. And a big thank you from all of us!
Warm regards, AV. On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 3:33 AM Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Great news! Congratulations! > > Dean > > > On Saturday, June 19, 2021, 12:06:00 AM GMT+5:30, Donald R Davis via > INDOLOGY <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear Colleagues, > > I am pleased to inform you about a new repository of searchable electronic > texts of Dharmaśāstra commentaries and digests, hosted at the University of > Texas. During the pandemic, Patrick Olivelle has been hard at work > transcribing several important texts (thousands of pages!), often comparing > editions and providing text-critical notes. Although we intend to make > these open texts (CC BY-SA) available later through a central repository > such as GRETIL or SARIT, the proofreading process for texts of this size is > time-consuming. Rather than wait, however, we wanted to share the initial > transcriptions of six texts, portions of which have been checked. They are > offered to the Indological community as Google docs which can be downloaded > in various formats. That format may be slower to load, but it makes > corrections by a group easy. In most cases, we have also been able to > provide links to PDFs of standard editions of the same texts for easy > cross-referencing. In any case, we hope the availability of these e-texts > will facilitate future research on Dharmaśāstra. > > Please join me in a public expression of thanks to Patrick for his > typically tireless scholarly efforts to make these texts available. All > inquiries, suggestions, etc. should be sent to me, but users are warned > that the texts are offered as-is and that we are making continuous updates > to the files. > > http://sites.utexas.edu/sanskrit/resources/dharmasastra/ > > Best, > > Don Davis > Professor & Chair > Department of Asian Studies > University of Texas at Austin > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- *Ananya Vajpeyi* https://www.csds.in/ananya_vajpeyi
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