Kashmiri Atharvaveda fully digitised

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Dear colleagues,

as many of you might already know from the previous Indology list,

e-ternals.com is the digitisation project protecting and publishing

manuscripts, drawings, miniatures and other world heritage documents.

We are currently digitising the entire Indian manuscripts in the

Tuebingen University Library. The first manuscripts from Tuebingen

are now available as digital facsimile editions.

 

First priority was of course Rudolph Roth's famous birch-bark

Atharvaveda manuscript (Kashmiri Paippalada recension), which

we have now fully digitised at true 800 dpi and in 24-bit colour.

While we were digitising this huge manuscript, we realised that

this is actually the *** first complete edition ever. ***

(There is a two-colour reproduction from 1901 which omits

several folio pages and the nine pages of fragments.)

 

Our edition is of superb digital quality, permitting the most stringent

critical text edition work, much better even than with a magnification

glass

over the original. Digitisation was performed at true 800 dpi and 24-bit

 

colour, using the most advanced optoelectronic cold-system technology.

We are now making this world heritage document available worldwide to

all universities, libraries, archives and individual scholars.

This very large manuscript (553 folio pages plus 9 pages of so-far

unpublished

fragments) is now available on 153 normed archive-quality CD-ROMs

for only US$ 1530.--. This includes the licence for unlimited use within

 

your university/institution, including reproduction for internal use

within your organisation. We are publishing the authentic, unreduced

data,

in uncompressed TIFF format, adhering to our stringent Archive Quality

long-term archiving standard, fully in line with ISO norms for

platform-independent useability.

A booklet containing meta-data and referencing between the folio pages

and the CD-ROMs is also included.

 

Many more so far unpublished or little published manuscripts are now

also becoming available in quick succession. For instance, we are in the

 

process of publishing some very interesting palm-leaf and other

manuscripts on

religion/ritual law, Vedic manuscripts, grammars (Sanskrit, Prakrit, . .

..),

dictionaries, prosody, poetry and drama, philosophy, Puranas, rhetoric,

history, astrology etc.

Some of these manuscripts are extremely old and valuable and were so

far unpublished. Some of them were not known to exist. We are now

making them available world-wide for every interested scholar to read.

We only charge US$ 10.-- per CD-ROM plus postage and shipping.

Some manuscripts only fill two or three CD-ROMs, so that it is

possible to get university-wide unlimited usage rights for only a few

dollars,

whereas previously a trip to Tuebingen would have been a necessity.

The material is very varied and useful in many departments.

Many scripts (Sharada, various types of Grantha, many sub-types of

Devanagari, Bengali, . . .), many languages, many materials (birch bark,

 

many types of paper, northern ink-written palm leaves, southern incised

palm leaves, colour miniatures on wood . . .).

 

To bring in some revenue for further digitisation, we are also

publishing

very beautiful facsimile bookmarks (laminated), framed facsimile prints

in many sizes, and other nice paraphernalia.

There are also multimedia editions with special zooming and browsing

software for Windows and Macintosh. In the pipeline: interactive

teaching software for Sharada and Grantha.

 

Please let us know if you would like to receive full printed information

 

on what is becoming available.

Please support our world-wide culturally independent effort to preserve

and publish valuable documents.

 

With kind regards,

sincerely,

 

Gunthard Mueller

(Dir.)

e-ternals.com/Anthos Imprint Ltd.

Unter den Linden 15

72762 Reutlingen

Germany

Tel.: +49 7121 38113-40

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