[Academic projects in Indology
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[Indoskript: Database of South Asian Scripts]
Interactive database on the palaeography of South-Asian scripts. The full IndoSkript software program and database is now (2/2006) available for free download. Nota Bene: this download is 633 megabytes.
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A publication series that produces a Sanskrit library of texts and translations analogous to the famous Loeb series for Latin and Greek literature. Fifteen titles are currently available and seven more will go on sale in February 2006.
The list of projected Clay Sanskrit Library volumes includes all books of the two Indian epics: the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, as well as a rich selection of classical Indian literature (kavya). Each volume provides a fresh translation with facing-page edition of the original. -
[http://www.sansknet.org: Sansknet: Rashtriya Sanskrita Vidyapitha, Tirupati] (Broken Link)
You can look at the website as it was going back to 07/2002 at the WaybackMachine: [http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sansknet.org].
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[The Digital Colonial Documents Project (India)]
This is intended to promote study of the rare seminal documents which were influential in the formation of the notions of nation, state and culture during the colonial period. It includes full text versions of the Indian Census Reports for 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901, Murrays Guide to India for 1859, The Indian Education Report of 1882, Mill's History of British India and other documents.
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[The British Library / University of Washington Early Buddhist Manuscript project]
Includes Unicode transcription of the Kharosthi inscriptions of Asoka, and images of other early manuscripts.
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Argentinian website with tutorials in Paninian grammar.
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By Guy Mazars and Sylvain Mazars, devoted to traditional Indian medicine and pharmacopoeia.
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A project devised and led by Dr Madhu Khanna.
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[Indian National Manuscripts Mission]
The project was [launched] by the Indian PM in February 2003. "This Mission with an initial outlay of Rs.35 crore aims at surveying, identifying, collecting, copying, cataloguing and publishing of manuscripts that are lying scattered all over the country in the custody of various sources."
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[ACSAM: The American Committee for South Asian Manuscripts]
The prototype of the ACSAM online manuscript catalogue is viewable now! With the collaboration of Brown's Scholarly Technology Group, ACSAM has designed and implemented an abridged draft version of its bio-bibliographical electronic cataloguing project, a Union Descriptive Catalogue of several thousand South and West Asian manuscripts now in North American collections. (The electronic catalogue design is an ongoing project, and we welcome comments and suggestions on its format.)
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The Moksopaya or, as it is better known, Yogavasistha, is a voluminous work that uses a blend of theoretical expositions and narratives to impress upon the reader its philosophical message that aims at a non-ascetic `liberation in life'. With its frame story, which situates the text within the Ramayana, it has been called a philosophical epic, and with its approximately 32000 verses it is perhaps the largest of its kind. The present project aims to produce a critical edition of the fundamental text, as well as a series of studies explicating the unique philosophy it embodies.
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[Asian Classics Input Project] Mainly Tibetan texts.
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[Uur - A Video Essay on Tamil]
This is part one of a video about one of the few languages in the world besides Greek that is both classical and modern. Spoken by nearly 80 million people, mainly in native Tamilnadu, South India, Tamil has a literary continuity of over 2000 years. Here we get a glimpse of the first 800 years of its known history - through geography and landscape, archaeology and literary history, and classical and folk performances. The video is produced by M.V. Bhaskar and co-directed with K.T. Gandhirajan, with advice from Dr. E. Annamalai, former Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages and currently Visiting Professor Emeritus, Yale. ...
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The Digital Himalaya project was conceived of by Professor Alan Macfarlane and Dr. Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000. ...
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