Bibliographic info. for manuscript scripts and orthography

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Dear list members,

 

1) I am interested in the following books mentioned in the old Indology

archives but I can't find them listed in either the Library of Congress or

New York Public Library Research Library on-line catalogues. Can any

members give me a contact who can give me availability/pricing/ordering

information for these.

 

a) Walter Slaje, Sarada: deskriptiv-synchrone Schriftkunde zur

Bearbeitung kaschmirischer Sanskrit-Manuskripte[indische

Schriften, Band 1] Reinbek: Wezler, 1993)

 

b) Studies on the Nilamata, Kyoto 1994 .

(Also I see listed in the archives

"Studies on the Nilamata-Purana", Ikari 1995

"A Study of the Nilamata", Ikari 1994

"A Study of the Nilamata: Aspects of Hinduism in Ancient

Kashmir", Ikari, 1994 .

Are these all the same book? )

 

2) Also do any of the list members know of any available microfilm or paper

copies of a sharada manuscript that also has a devanagari copy. I'm looking

for something to use to get practice reading sharada script so I don't

really care what the content is.

 

3) Can anyone recommend a book or articles that give a good

geographical/temporal/historical overview to the different scripts found in

manuscripts?

 

Many thanks,

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

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INDOLOGY, "Harry Spier" <harryspier@H...> wrote:

> Dear list members,

>

> 1) I am interested in the following books mentioned in the old

Indology

> archives but I can't find them listed in either the Library of

Congress or

> New York Public Library Research Library on-line catalogues. Can

any

> members give me a contact who can give me

availability/pricing/ordering

> information for these.

>

> a) Walter Slaje, Sarada: deskriptiv-synchrone Schriftkunde zur

> Bearbeitung kaschmirischer Sanskrit-Manuskripte[indische

> Schriften, Band 1] Reinbek: Wezler, 1993)

>

> b) Studies on the Nilamata, Kyoto 1994 .

> (Also I see listed in the archives

> "Studies on the Nilamata-Purana", Ikari 1995

> "A Study of the Nilamata", Ikari 1994

> "A Study of the Nilamata: Aspects of Hinduism in Ancient

> Kashmir", Ikari, 1994 .

> Are these all the same book? )

>

> 2) Also do any of the list members know of any available microfilm

or paper

> copies of a sharada manuscript that also has a devanagari copy. I'm

looking

> for something to use to get practice reading sharada script so I

don't

> really care what the content is.

>

> 3) Can anyone recommend a book or articles that give a good

> geographical/temporal/historical overview to the different scripts

found in

> manuscripts?

>

> Many thanks,

>

>

> Harry Spier

> 371 Brickman Rd.

> Hurleyville, New York

> USA 12747

dear sir,

asi earlier commited,i brought with my personallibrary,a book

namely"madhumati"of a traditional sage somananda,having many

wonderfull articles and informations as well,it also had a chapter-

describing the details of BrAhmi,shAradA,tAkarI,bangalA,gurumukhi,and

uriyA lipis,but it is in sanskrat languageonly andnottranslated.it

hadalso described and utilised the ancient symbols to mention the

ShAradA lipy,and brAhmi lipi etc,on page 14-18th,but unfortunately i

am having only one book and no microfilm or zeroxcopy etc,ifyou

areinterested,you may collect it,iwill try to send you the book or

the article what ever is meeting your requirements

thanks

spsharma,vim49

>

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Just in case someone is interested, some information is

available at

 

A Sharda Primer by Prem Nath Shastri

http://ikashmir.org/Languages/ShardaScript/index.html

 

Nilamat Purana (trans) by Dr. Ved Kumari

http://koausa.org/Purana/

 

Some of the Kashmiri scholars like Prof. Subhash Kak probably

can provide good leads.

 

There are several books on scripts in India. I have often

used the book by Ojha.

 

Several books give tables that show regional/temporal evolution

of Indian scripts.

 

Yashwant

 

Languages & Scripts of India

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.html