I'm surprised one thing has gone unsaid. Copyrights etc. permitting wherever possible shouldn't a pdf of the original manuscript be published with the e-text?
Are there on-line e-texts that also have a pdf or a link to the original manuscript? Harry Spier On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 1:50 PM Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Philipp dixit, > > However, > > any manuscript transcript should be based on a benevolent interpretation > > of the Sanskrit text transmitted in the witness, containing, for > > example, /ba/or /va/, when and wherever required by the contexts. > > Why be benevolent in the *transcription*? One can, and should be > benevolent in the text of the edition. That's a different text file. But > I see no motive for being benevolent in the transcription. Also, smoothing > out scribal quirks also erases the chance for future study of such scribal > features. But mainly, I just can't see any point in not transcribing > diplomatically. > > If, for the sake of argument, one had a special need for a MS > transcription that had b and v in the expected places, one could write a > little grep script to fix them all up. > > Best, > Dominik >
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