Dear Radha, Thank you for your thanks. Its mister Spier not professor Spier. But please call me Harry. Harry Spier
On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 12:57 PM Blinderman, Radha < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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