Guest guest Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Dear group. There is a very nice edition of the Hamsaduta of Rupagosvamin here at the BORI library, which I need, but the book can't be copied without being ruined, and I won't have time to copy it by hand before my library membership elapses, and anyway I don't really look forward to copying almost two hundred pages of devanagari by hand. I shall be in Mysore rom wednesday next and possibly in Chennai and Bangalore after that, and have a lot of money for riding the rails. Does someone have a bookstore with the Hamsaduta and a sanskrit commentary. I have not found such a bookstore in Pune; there is Motilal Banarsidas on Rajirao Road but they don't have a Hamsaduta that I can see. A bookstore with used sanskrit texts might have it, but this I have not found. Many thanks. Thanks also especially to those who have helped me with advice about living in India. Phillip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 7, 2005 Report Share Posted August 7, 2005 Philip, Without the publishing information, it is hard to say. If your trips take you in the vicinity of the publisher of the book, your chances are much better. In Pune, you may wish to contact Mr. Sapre at smsapre (his father was more in the book industry than he is, but he has procured some things for me in the past). I believe the email is still up to date. If available, he will get the book and mail it where ever you like. In Madras, there is a bookstore (Laksmi Books, I think) near the Sanskrit College. Alternatively, Kuppuswami Research Institute may own the book (their library fees were reasonable and the book may be in a condition to allow copying). Adyar Library will prove more difficult if you are only there a short time. As I'm sure you know, Motilal has stores in many major cities, so it is always worth checking each one. The best place I know for hard to find Sanskrit texts is Chaukhamba in Varanasi, but it has been some time since I was last there (and your trips probably won't take you that far). Hope this helps, Steven p.s. I doubt you will find any significant number of used Sanskrit books in your travels. There is little to no market for them. Most families either pass down such books or donate them to universities. Please inform me if you do.... > > Message: 1 > Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:34:56 -0000 > "filippo_senzadenaro" <phillip.ernest > Hamsaduta with sanskrit commentary > > Dear group. There is a very nice edition of the Hamsaduta of > Rupagosvamin here at the BORI library, which I need, but the book can't > be copied without being ruined, and I won't have time to copy it by > hand before my library membership elapses, and anyway I don't really > look forward to copying almost two hundred pages of devanagari by > hand. I shall be in Mysore rom wednesday next and possibly in Chennai > and Bangalore after that, and have a lot of money for riding the > rails. Does someone have a bookstore with the Hamsaduta and a sanskrit > commentary. I have not found such a bookstore in Pune; there is > Motilal Banarsidas on Rajirao Road but they don't have a Hamsaduta that > I can see. A bookstore with used sanskrit texts might have it, but > this I have not found. > > Many thanks. Thanks also especially to those who have helped me with > advice about living in India. > > Phillip > -- Steven E. Lindquist Lecturer in Indian Religions Department of Religion Concordia University, Montreal -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2005 Report Share Posted August 8, 2005 INDOLOGY, Steven Lindquist <s-lindquist@t...> wrote: > Philip, > > Without the publishing information, it is hard to say. If your trips take > you in the vicinity of the publisher of the book, your chances are much > better. Hello, Steven and others. I was just logging on to privide a bit more information, which I characteristically forgot, namely, that this edition has the sanskrit commentary of someone named Gopalacakravatti. I don't know if his is one of many or few. Other publication information I did not copy down, since really I am interested in any sanskrit commentary I can find- unless I should be more discriminating. This edition also has two more commentaries, a prose one in hindi and a verse one in hindi. I shall use the email you have given, many thanks; I think Laksmi Books is a shop I have been told about, an indological bookshop; I shall certainly go there if I get to Chennai > In Pune, you may wish to contact Mr. Sapre at smsapre@v... Ah, I see that this email will have to be sent to me again in a private email, I think- if you could do that? On this computer at least the entire address is not revealed. Many thanks. Phillip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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