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The publication history of editions and translations of Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya and commentaries is complicated.  In Feb 2024, Christop...

Sanskrit 2003 The Sanskrit 2003 font provides a rich set of conjunct consonants (sandhyakṣarāḥ) and looks really good, if you like classic D...

The original books The publication history of this two-volume work is slightly complicated. 1902 : volume 1 (London & Oxford) 1903 : vol...

I'm translating a Sanskrit text full of plant names.  In a previous project of this type, I created a simple bilingual index, Sanskrit-E...

I care deeply about good writing, which I believe to be indistinguishable from good thinking.  As an undergraduate, I was lucky enough to ge...

 Further to the Devanagari samples of 2017 , here's an update showing some of the new Adishila fonts .

This is an addendum to my article "An Alchemical Ghost" in Ambix (1984: 70--83). DOI: 10.1179/amb.1984.31.2.70 . The chapters o...

 I recently installed and used a Python program, internetarchive .  Somewhere along the line of installing it with pip , the Python setup on...

For those of you who are writing essays for the first time, here are some guidelines. There are many guides available to help you with ess...

In earlier posts I addressed this issue, but I think my examples were much too complicated.  Here's a minimum working example.   \docum...

I gather that there were good security-related reasons for discontinuing gksudo. But it's quite inconvenient not having it, for example...

This is well documented elsewhere , but just for clarity, here are my settings, that work. I.e., the Google drive appears automatically moun...

Years ago I wrote an article called " The Spikes in the Ears of the Ascetic ."  I examined a story that occurs in early Buddhist a...

When I upgraded to Linux Mint 19.1 with Cinnamon, I encountered a problem that my screen flickered immediately after logging in.  Others enc...

Returning from a trip abroad, my Canadian Public Mobile service stopped providing mobile data.  The problem was that the APN parameters for ...

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It is not easy to find these books at the NIIMH website, so here are the links: Carakasaṃhitā Suśrutasaṃhitā Mādhavanidānam Nighaṇṭava...

Sometimes one encounters a website that displays a book or manuscript page-by-page as individual jpeg files.  But what you need for your re...

With the update to Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon, the sliders controlling the trackpoint's accelleration and speed on my Thinkpad T560 and T500...

From a review of a history book: "Written more in the tradition of Burckhardt and Braudel than Marx and Hobsbawm, the book is an ex...