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Richard Lariviere of Texas explored the current state of the Punjab

University Library Sanskrit manuscripts some year ago. They seem to

be still there but inaccessible. I don't know if this is pertinent to

your question about the D.A.V. College mss, but if it is Lariviere's

email is rwl.

 

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>This would no doubt be the excellent MSS collection put together

>under the supervsiion of Woolner and Lakshman Sarup. If so it is now

>housed in the library of the University of the Panjab at its new

>campus in Iqbal Nagar on the outskirts of Lahore. I visited the

>collection a few years ago but even with the proper contacts was

>given only very limited access to it. There is an extensive card

>catalogue which I was able to examine and it contained, as I recall

>some rather intersting things. I was brought several MSS that I

>selected from the catalogue and found them to be in good condition.

>I was not, however, allowed to see the collection for myself. When

>I asked the library staff how many "Sansikrit" manuscripts they had

>they only replied "Kaafi."

 

These manuscripts, needless to say, are not much used in their

present location and it would be a good thing if some arrangement

could be made to purchase them, relocate them or at the least make

them more accessible to scholars. I did hear that some American

university, perhaps the University of Texas with or without some

other collaborators was at one point engaged in an effort to acquire

these manuscripts, but I do not know what, if anything came of this

initiative. Perhaps some other list members can update us on this.

 

>Dear list-members,

>The first volume of Catalogus Catalogorum (University

>of Madras, 1968) mentions 'A hand-list of the MSS

>(under 'A') in the Lalchand Research Library, D.A.V.

>College, Lahore (349 MSS)'. Those are the Sanskrit

>MSS.

>Does anyone know, where are the MSS now, is the

>college still there and at what address?

> Thank you.

> Marina Orelskaya

>

>

>Dr Marina Orelskaya

>c/o Department of Sanskrit

>and Prakrit Languages

>University of Pune

>Ganeshkhind Road

>Pune 411007

>Maharashtra

>India

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>Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Messenger

>http://phonecard./

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>indology

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>Your use of is subject to

 

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Dr. R. P. Goldman

Professor of Sanskrit

Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

7303 Dwinelle Hall MC #2540

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-2540

email: sseas

Phone: (510) 642-4089

Fax: (510) 643-2959

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Dear List members:

 

I got the following e-mail from Prof. Robert Goldman but not the message(s)

to which it refers. I recall the same thing happening a few weeks ago in the

case of another message. Did anyone else have the same experience? What

could be a possible explanation (apart from censorship -- most rs

to this list should know that I am old enough to be allowed to see movies

without parental guidance and too set in my ways to be affected by the

content of any writing -- and apart from the respondent responding to an

unintended readership)?

 

ashok aklujkar

 

On 06-02-2002 11:48, "Robert Goldman" <sseas wrote:

 

>> This would no doubt be the excellent MSS collection put together

>> under the supervsiion of Woolner and Lakshman Sarup. If so it is now

>> housed in the library of the University of the Panjab at its new

>> campus in Iqbal Nagar on the outskirts of Lahore. I visited the

>> collection a few years ago but even with the proper contacts was

>> given only very limited access to it. There is an extensive card

>> catalogue which I was able to examine and it contained, as I recall

>> some rather intersting things. I was brought several MSS that I

>> selected from the catalogue and found them to be in good condition.

>> I was not, however, allowed to see the collection for myself. When

>> I asked the library staff how many "Sansikrit" manuscripts they had

>> they only replied "Kaafi."

>

> These manuscripts, needless to say, are not much used in their

> present location and it would be a good thing if some arrangement

> could be made to purchase them, relocate them or at the least make

> them more accessible to scholars. I did hear that some American

> university, perhaps the University of Texas with or without some

> other collaborators was at one point engaged in an effort to acquire

> these manuscripts, but I do not know what, if anything came of this

> initiative. Perhaps some other list members can update us on this.

>

>> Dear list-members,

>> The first volume of Catalogus Catalogorum (University

>> of Madras, 1968) mentions 'A hand-list of the MSS

>> (under 'A') in the Lalchand Research Library, D.A.V.

>> College, Lahore (349 MSS)'. Those are the Sanskrit

>> MSS.

>> Does anyone know, where are the MSS now, is the

>> college still there and at what address?

>> Thank you.

>> Marina Orelskaya

>>

>>

>> Dr Marina Orelskaya

>> c/o Department of Sanskrit

>> and Prakrit Languages

>> University of Pune

>> Ganeshkhind Road

>> Pune 411007

>> Maharashtra

>> India

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Messenger

>> http://phonecard./

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> indology

>>

>>

>>

>> Your use of is subject to

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At 9:22 am -0800 7/2/02, Ashok Aklujkar wrote:

>Dear List members:

>

>I got the following e-mail from Prof. Robert Goldman but not the message(s)

>to which it refers...Did anyone else have the same experience?

 

This has been happening to me, too.

 

Valerie J Roebuck

Manchester, UK

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>I dont' think there is any problem with the list in this case. I was

>actually responding to a rather old message (08-26-01) from Dr.

>Orelskaya, since the subject interested me and I hadn't noticed it

>before.

 

 

 

 

>Dear List members:

>

>I got the following e-mail from Prof. Robert Goldman but not the message(s)

>to which it refers. I recall the same thing happening a few weeks ago in the

>case of another message. Did anyone else have the same experience? What

>could be a possible explanation (apart from censorship -- most rs

>to this list should know that I am old enough to be allowed to see movies

>without parental guidance and too set in my ways to be affected by the

>content of any writing -- and apart from the respondent responding to an

>unintended readership)?

>

>ashok aklujkar

>

>On 06-02-2002 11:48, "Robert Goldman" <sseas wrote:

>

>>> This would no doubt be the excellent MSS collection put together

>>> under the supervsiion of Woolner and Lakshman Sarup. If so it is now

>>> housed in the library of the University of the Panjab at its new

>>> campus in Iqbal Nagar on the outskirts of Lahore. I visited the

>>> collection a few years ago but even with the proper contacts was

>>> given only very limited access to it. There is an extensive card

>>> catalogue which I was able to examine and it contained, as I recall

>>> some rather intersting things. I was brought several MSS that I

>>> selected from the catalogue and found them to be in good condition.

>>> I was not, however, allowed to see the collection for myself. When

>>> I asked the library staff how many "Sansikrit" manuscripts they had

>>> they only replied "Kaafi."

>>

>> These manuscripts, needless to say, are not much used in their

>> present location and it would be a good thing if some arrangement

>> could be made to purchase them, relocate them or at the least make

>> them more accessible to scholars. I did hear that some American

>> university, perhaps the University of Texas with or without some

>> other collaborators was at one point engaged in an effort to acquire

>> these manuscripts, but I do not know what, if anything came of this

>> initiative. Perhaps some other list members can update us on this.

>>

>>> Dear list-members,

>>> The first volume of Catalogus Catalogorum (University

>>> of Madras, 1968) mentions 'A hand-list of the MSS

>>> (under 'A') in the Lalchand Research Library, D.A.V.

>>> College, Lahore (349 MSS)'. Those are the Sanskrit

>>> MSS.

>>> Does anyone know, where are the MSS now, is the

>>> college still there and at what address?

>>> Thank you.

>>> Marina Orelskaya

>>>

>>>

>>> Dr Marina Orelskaya

>>> c/o Department of Sanskrit

>>> and Prakrit Languages

>>> University of Pune

>>> Ganeshkhind Road

>>> Pune 411007

>>> Maharashtra

>>> India

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Messenger

>>> http://phonecard./

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> indology

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> Your use of is subject to

>

>

>

>

>indology

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>

>

>Your use of is subject to

 

--

Dr. R. P. Goldman

Professor of Sanskrit

Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

7303 Dwinelle Hall MC #2540

University of California at Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-2540

email: sseas

Phone: (510) 642-4089

Fax: (510) 643-2959

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