Dear Professor Spier, Thank you for this amazing resource you created! It is so immensely helpful.
Gratefully, Radha On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM Charles DiSimone via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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