This zip archive contains three files:

readme          this file
ah.tei          The Astangahrdayasamhita of Vagbhata, encoded using the
                guidelines of the Text Encoding Intitiative (see
                http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei).  A 7-bit file.
ah-raw.csx      The text of the Ah. again, but without the TEI markup,
                and using the CSX 8-bit encoding for transliterated
                Sanskrit.

The "header" of the ah.tei file is as follows:


<title>
A machine-readable transcription of the A.s.taa"ngah.rdaya by Vaagbha.ta
</title>

<publicationstmt>
Published electronically on the INDOLOGY file server,
ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology/texts, London 1996.

<availability>
        *** Copyright 1997 R.P. Das and R.E. Emmerick ***

The copyright holders give permission for this file to be distributed
freely for academic, non-commercial purposes.  This file may not be sold
or distributed in any manner requiring payment, either alone, or with
other texts.  And it must not be used as part of any software system
which is sold or distributed other than freely.

If you desire to make such use of this file, you must contact the
copyright holders for permission to do so.

Any (free) software system that makes use of this file must include a
clear acknowledgement of the copyright holders' copyright which should
display each time the program runs.

The copyright holders would be grateful to be informed of any
substantial uses made of this file.

  Prof. R.E. Emmerick: emmerick@t-online.de
  Prof. R. P. Das:     das@indologie.uni-halle.de

</availability>

</publicationstmt>

<sourcedesc>
This electronic text was created on the basis of several printed
editions of the A.s.taa"ngah.rdayasa.mhitaa.
</sourcedesc>

<writing system>
7-bit encoding of the Sanskrit text using the transliteration system
defined by Frans Velthuis in his TeX Devanagari package, available from
        ftp.tex.ac.uk:/tex-archive/languages
See also
        http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indology.html

A formal TEI "Writing System Declaration" will be developed for this
transliteration system in due course.  Once this WSD  is publicly available,
this document should be edited to refer to it formally.
</writing system>