Re: [INDOLOGY] Nagari conversion

2022-06-09 Thread Oliver Hellwig via INDOLOGY
Dear all, thanks to all who drew my attention to P. Freund, especially to Sesha Vadapalli who sent me the link to his website. There's a web directory with some texts I was not able to locate elsewhere: https://peterffreund.com/Vedic_Literature/ (follow e.g. the kalpa/ link) Best, Oliver On

Re: [INDOLOGY] the late fate of the the Rig Vedic Dyaus Pater?

2022-06-09 Thread Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY
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Re: [INDOLOGY] Nagari conversion

2022-06-09 Thread Oliver Hellwig via INDOLOGY
Thanks a lot, Harry, for explaining the technical background. This definitely explains the strange encoding. For the time being, re-OCRing it seems to be one manageable approach (already pointed out by Tim Cahill), so I will try the Google cloud SDK which works in the background of SanskritCR.

Re: [INDOLOGY] Nagari conversion

2022-06-09 Thread Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY
Oliver, I’d like to add a bit to Harry’s account. The pdf document properties indicate it was created May 8, 2006 by Peter Freund. This is most likely the same Peter Freund on staff at the Maharishi International University library (libr...@miu.edu ). Elliot M. Stern

Re: [INDOLOGY] Nagari conversion

2022-06-09 Thread Harry Spier via INDOLOGY
Oliver, When I open the link you gave, in a browser it gives the file name in the upper left corner as drahyayana_shrauta_sutra.qxd . The extension qxd is for QuarkXpress files. QuarkXpress is publishing software. When I download the file, it downloads as a pdf but when I look at the properties,

Re: [INDOLOGY] perfectionism

2022-06-09 Thread patrick mccartney via INDOLOGY
Thank you to all who responded to my query. The responses are most helpful. I apologise if this sounds contrived or random, however there is a certain requirement to be surreptitious. Essentially, part of what I've been wondering about is if there are any mentions of either attaining a general

Re: [INDOLOGY] Journals publishing epigraphs currently

2022-06-09 Thread Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY
Dear Dhaval, Recently (December 2021) we published an epigraphy paper, https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03685246v1 https://www.academia.edu/81059586/Some_Siddham_inscriptions_in_China_palaeography_and_ritual_function with our colleagues in Moscow, in *Epigrafika vostoka*, Institute of