Re: [INDOLOGY] Access to Sanskrit manuscripts in the Tibet Museum, Lhasa

2022-04-05 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear David, The short answer is, as far as I know, no. They are zealously guarded and the last I knew is that they will be for the foreseeable future. Ernst Steinkellner managed to form a liaison in the 90s and published a few things, but my impression is that otherwise they are permanently of

Re: [INDOLOGY] Question on kūṭiyāṭṭaṃ hastamudrās

2022-04-02 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
e. > > The content of the gestures in the dance sections between lines of > dialogue too is part of this aesthetic interpretation > /elaboration/commentary by the actor. > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 2:03 AM DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE < > diegolouk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > >>

[INDOLOGY] Question on kūṭiyāṭṭaṃ hastamudrās

2022-04-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear all, I am looking for guidance regarding the conventions of the Sanskrit theater traditions of Kerala. The question is: What is the content and structure of the semantic gestures in the dance sections between lines of dialogue? In one of my courses we will be reading the *Little Clay Ca

Re: [INDOLOGY] witchcraft info

2022-02-04 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear Paolo, Albeit short and less descriptive than we would wish, the three 3rd-4th Century Gāndhārī documents from Niya that mention the persecution and summary execution of witches, numbers 58, 63, and 248, are the one instance I can think of (you will find the texts in Boyer, A.M., E. J. Ra

[INDOLOGY] UCLA - 2-year lecturership in Jainism and South Asian Religions

2021-12-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear all, The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA welcomes applications for a two-year lecturership in Jainism & South Asian Religions. The deadline for application is January 2, 2022; see more information in the link below. I would be grateful if you could forward this to anyone who wou

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear Harry, Something I do (not perfect) is taking the digital Devanagari text and input it to Google Translate set to Nepali. The phinetic transcription yields tolerable IAST text with some quirks that can be easily fixed with the "replace all" feature on Microsoft Word vel sim. (e.g. ē -> e)

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
"phonetic", not "phinetic"... On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 7:18 AM DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE < diegolouk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Dear Harry, > > Something I do (not perfect) is taking the digital Devanagari text and > input it to Google Translate set to Ne

Re: [INDOLOGY] update on Skrutable

2021-11-19 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Wonderful resource! Thank you and congratulations. *namaskaromi*, Diego. On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:26 AM Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY < indology@list.indology.info> wrote: > Dear Tyler, > heartfelt congratulations, having the recitation sound files there is > fantastic, and I really appr

Re: [INDOLOGY] Bharatiya Vidya article

2021-07-22 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear Axel, You can find it here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.533870 *namaskaromi*, Diego On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 2:45 PM Michaels, Axel < micha...@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > Dear all, > > > > Does anybody have a scan/copy of the following article bei

Re: [INDOLOGY] dhīmahi

2021-07-19 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear Prof. Deshpande, I wonder if these two posts are the ones you were thinking about: https://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology/1999-August/018160.html https://list.indology.info/pipermail/indology/1999-August/018163.html *namaskaromi*, Diego On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:11 P

Re: [INDOLOGY] mallaghaṭī

2021-05-18 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Hello Patrick, The term occurs in act four (4.95), p. 152 in the Shulman/Rao edition+translation for the Clay Sanskrit Library. Mallaghaṭī is given only as a scenic indication on how a verse is to be performed, perhaps involving specific modes of song, dance, or pantomime. Lyne Bansat-Boud

Re: [INDOLOGY] The Buddhist term sutta

2021-05-11 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
n Tue, May 11, 2021 at 2:44 PM DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE < diegolouk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Artur, > > I see your point, and it resonates with things I have thought. In the > period in which I am most interested, the exact original etymon of MIA > *sutta* is largely

Re: [INDOLOGY] The Buddhist term sutta

2021-05-11 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Hello Artur, I see your point, and it resonates with things I have thought. In the period in which I am most interested, the exact original etymon of MIA *sutta* is largely irrelevant—what is crucial is knowing how the term was understood in the period, namely as equivalent to Sanskrit *sūtra*