Dear Tyler, Thanks for sharing the Sanskrit versions of those ACK publications - it's always a pleasure to browse through these! I just wanted to alert you to a few more translated titles residing on Internet Archive. These are listed below, and the last two are unfortunately missing their title page.
Kannagi: https://archive.org/details/kannagi_ack_sanskrit/mode/2up Napoleon Bonaparte: https://archive.org/details/ack-napoleon-bonaparte-sanskrit/mode/2up Hakka and Bukka: https://archive.org/details/ack-hakka-bukka-skt Kalidasa: https://ia800308.us.archive.org/28/items/kaalidaasa-skt-ack/kaalidaasa-ack.pdf I don't know if more such Sanskrit translations exist, but it will certainly be nice to have them all together in one place. Best wishes, Priya On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM Tyler Neill via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear List, > > For over a decade, I've had in my possession two rare Amar Chitra Katha > comic books in Sanskrit (गंगा and भगवान् बुद्धः), given out by Sadananda > Das to students in his spoken Sanskrit summer course (Heidelberg, 2013). I > also discovered another one already digitized online (हनुमान्), plus one > more Sanskrit comic book (रामायण) that's not Amar Chitra Katha. Two of the > Amar Chitra Katha items clearly note the role of Pandit Gulam Dastgir, who > I believe was the translator of all three. > > Checking now, I'm surprised to see that no one else has yet made these > items easily available online, e.g., on Archive. They are great learning > tools, if nothing else. > > To fix this, I've now digitized my two and uploaded all four to Archive: > https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-ganga-sanskrit > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-ganga-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXJ4poOh1$> > https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-bhagavan-buddhah-sanskrit > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-bhagavan-buddhah-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXKZfmWNx$> > https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-hanuman-sanskrit > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/amar-chitra-katha-hanuman-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXEQlFg4K$> > https://archive.org/details/mystery-comic-book-ramayana-sanskrit > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://archive.org/details/mystery-comic-book-ramayana-sanskrit__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXJ-FVS6S$> > > Please enjoy and share widely. Let me know if there are any copyright > concerns, or if I can improve the metadata to make them easier to find. > Also, if you have or know of additional Sanskrit comic books of this sort, > please be in touch, maybe I can continue organizing better access. > > Kind wishes, > Tyler > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology__;!!IBzWLUs!Xqn4METydeUMJcXuwEF-wcI4xe85m4eew3K1kym2iSqL2fYDLCqx9rwftvETqsGy5tid1mGRwOFeZDg_qmniXCMRYEOK$ >
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