Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5782 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German
| Message 25 of 36 01 June 2012 at 1:08pm | IP Logged |
alang wrote:
Random review wrote:
I didn't mean to imply that you were wrong about
Tamil sounding more like Tamil, |
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@Randomreview,
Tamil sounding more like Tamil? ;-P
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Oh dear. I'll edit that one out, thanks.
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lingua nova Newbie United States Joined 4554 days ago 25 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Indonesian, Tagalog, French
| Message 26 of 36 07 June 2012 at 12:02am | IP Logged |
No earlier than 2013, eh? Perhaps my French will be up to snuff by then so that I can
follow along. I'll have to review Egenes' "Intro to Sanskrit" before then, however, which
is a wonderful book I'd recommend to even the most cursorily interested in the language.
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motchmaster Senior Member United States Joined 4892 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Latin, Hungarian
| Message 27 of 36 28 June 2012 at 12:02am | IP Logged |
Juаn wrote:
seldnar wrote:
I can't wait for the Murty Library. Not only will it
have Sanskrit works but also works
from all the major literary traditions in India. Sheldon Pollock who is the general
editor for the Murty Library was also the general editor for
The Clay Sanskrit Library For
reasons some have said are pedagogical, they have decided to Romanize the Sanskrit
instead of using Devanagari, however. Check out their downloads page to get sample
sections/chapters of many of their books. |
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I've never purchased a single Clay Sanskrit Library volume because of that hideous
romanization. Fittingly, the Murty Classical Library of India will use the
corresponding native script for the original-language side of every title. I'll order
each of them for certain as they're released. |
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Is romanizing Sanskrit really all that bad? It looks nice and all; but from my
understanding, Devanagari isn't Sanskrit's "native" script.
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audiophile Groupie United States Joined 5115 days ago 44 posts - 81 votes Studies: French
| Message 28 of 36 24 November 2012 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae
https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=library&bid =2
Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon
http://dsbc.uwest.edu/category/sanskrit-buddhist-canon/roman ized
(take out the space in the link)
Edited by audiophile on 24 November 2012 at 8:03am
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vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4677 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 29 of 36 09 April 2013 at 3:35pm | IP Logged |
Considering the number of views, I don't think it's been posted yet: Assimil Sanskrit Making-off (French)
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ling Diglot Groupie Taiwan Joined 4585 days ago 61 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Indonesian, Thai
| Message 30 of 36 09 April 2013 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
When I saw the subject of this thread, for some reason I thought it was "Pimsleur
Sanskrit"!
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Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali
| Message 31 of 36 09 April 2013 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
motchmaster wrote:
Juаn wrote:
seldnar wrote:
I can't wait for the Murty Library. Not only will it
have Sanskrit works but also works
from all the major literary traditions in India. Sheldon Pollock who is the general
editor for the Murty Library was also the general editor for
The Clay Sanskrit Library For
reasons some have said are pedagogical, they have decided to Romanize the Sanskrit
instead of using Devanagari, however. Check out their downloads page to get sample
sections/chapters of many of their books. |
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I've never purchased a single Clay Sanskrit Library volume because of that hideous
romanization. Fittingly, the Murty Classical Library of India will use the
corresponding native script for the original-language side of every title. I'll order
each of them for certain as they're released. |
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Is romanizing Sanskrit really all that bad? It looks nice and all; but from my
understanding, Devanagari isn't Sanskrit's "native" script. |
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Of course not.
In Tamil Nadu, Sanskrit is written in Tamil script,
in Kerala, children learn Sanskrit written in Malayalam script (and and not in [dev'nagri]).
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Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4276 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes Speaks: Cantonese*
| Message 32 of 36 10 April 2013 at 1:58pm | IP Logged |
So is it true that most of the Sanskrit books, research - anything related to Sanskrit
that are produced in modern times are written in Devanagari?
And is it true that most of the original "old" scripts fortunate enough to see the light
of today are in Devanagari?
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