Hi Harry, This is quite a fun tool, thank you for putting it together. I was playing around and entered some terms that occur in many, many places in many works. I found that when checked against my own collection of etexts in a BBEdit search that it seems that the Searchable Aggregate Library does not return all instances of a term in all works. I checked this against GRETIL etexts that are listed as being a part of the SEL but did not appear as results when I searched words that are contained in those works. I guess this is a potential bug?
Friendly greetings, Charles Prof. Dr. Charles DiSimone Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies & Indology Department of Languages and Cultures Ghent University On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > This is absolutely amazing. > > Madhav M. Deshpande > Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA > Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies > Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India > > [Residence: Campbell, California, USA] > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 8:21 AM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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