World-wide Digital Library - An Announcement

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Namaste,

 

Readers would be pleased to know this new development :

(excerpts from the sanskrit-digest list).

 

 

[sanskrit] Digital Library

>

> ".....I am working full-time running the worldwide efforts towards

building the largest digital library. The major scanning is being

done in India, where the Government and the President are involved.

On a side note of interest, one of the more recent centres to come up

is

> http://www.sanskritacademy.org/,

> besides active involvement by the Tirupati devasthanam and other

groups like the Madhva research centre. There are now 32 centres

across India and the number is growing weekly. China, egypt, italy

are a few of the 60+ countries that are at various stages of

assisting this project. ....."

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These books are archived under the Million Book Project.

 

If one visits

 

http://www.archive.org/texts and hit the "million book project"

 

icon at the top and hit the button "browse by language", one can see

several Indian languages in which books are archived, including

Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu, English, etc. Until now,

there are lots of books in Telugu. There are quite a few Sanskrit

books in Telugu section too. One can download the software DjVu from

the site and can read all these books on the computer itself. One can

download them too and read when necessary. There is a companion site

run by the Indian government at

 

http://www.dli.gov.in/mainpage1.html

 

Here the books are in the tiff format. This site is a bit slow. But

one can download the individual pages and stitch them together using

powere point software. I have benefited quite a bit using the

resources in my research on Chandas (metrical prosody). ...."

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Regards,

 

Sunder