Thank you to everyone who both online and offline expressed their appreciation for the new searchable aggregate sanskrit library. searchable-sanskrit-library.org .
The use of this new library has far exceeded my expectations. In the first 24 hours of the launch it was visited by 160 *different* users. But more importantly after this initial surge, the high and wide use of the library continued. In the last 4 days it has been visited by 118 different visitors from 80 cities and towns in 21 different countries. Hundreds of visits per day. (These are real user visits not spam). I think it is clear from the amount and type of usage (much use of the search engine) that this has become and will be a basic tool for the field. Thank you, Harry Spier On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 12:16 AM Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]> wrote: > Great initiative! Thank you so much, Harry. > > Best, > Dominik > > > -- > Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History > University of Alberta > > "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth, > the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge > through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities and > service." > -- Collective Agreement > <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf> > 3.01 > > > > On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 at 22:39, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear list members, >> I am extremely pleased to announce the launch of the "Searchable >> Aggregate Library of Sanskrit Etexts" newly created by myself from the >> major sanskrit etext collections on the web, whose licensing permits >> their copying for non-commercial use. >> >> Link: *searchable-sanskrit-library.org >> <http://searchable-sanskrit-library.org>* >> >> 1) It contains 1501 etexts giving a cross section of sanskrit texts from >> the vedic texts onward to pre-modern . The etexts are copied from the >> following collections. >> GRETIL sanskrit etext collection: 804 etexts >> SARIT sanskrit etexts in transliteration: 54 etexts >> University of Texas Dharma etexts and Upanishad etext collections: 86 >> etexts >> Digital Corpus of Sanskrit vedic prose collection (containing many TITUS >> texts): 58 etexts. >> Muktabodha etext collections with Creative Commons licencing (not >> including its joint venture etexts) : 499 etexts >> >> 2) There is a single clickable index to the entire collection in sanskrit >> letter order. >> >> 3) The search engine allows searchs in normal mode or with regular >> expressions. The results are displayed in what's known as "search in files" >> format, which shows all the results in a single page. Clicking on a result >> opens the relevant etext to that line in a new tab. >> >> If clicking on a line doesn't open the file up, then your browser malware >> protection may be the problem and you will have to add the url >> *searchable-sanskrit-library.org >> <http://searchable-sanskrit-library.org>* as a safe site. >> >> 4) Care has been taken to give credit to the institutions and >> transcribers. All files have their original headers and the clickable >> index to the etexts lists in addition to the titles, the institution and >> the transcribers names that created the etext. >> >> It is hoped that this new etext library will be both a location to >> search for etexts but also given that the collection is a cross-section of >> the literature from the earliest times onwards and regular expression >> searchs can be done, it is hoped that it will also be a research tool. >> >> This is a private initiative unaffiliated with any organisation. >> >> Thank you, >> Harry Spier >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >
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