One more update on the Sanskrit comic books, actually: There's yet another set of them on Archive, by creator:"Kashi Maharaj Kumari". https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Kashi%20Maharaj%20Kumari%22
Comparing this with the ones discussed before, there are 4 new ones here (Dr Ambedkar, Maharana Pratap, Chatrapati Shivaji, Valmiki), for a new total of 13 identified online. Happy reading! Kind regards, Tyler On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tyler Neill <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Bcc: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 <https://archive.org/details/@comics_in_sanskrit/uploads>", >> 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 >> >
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