[INDOLOGY] Mahabharata CE on archive.org

[Harry Spier]

In case it is of interest to anyone else, here are links to volumes 1 thru
19 of Mahabharata on archive.org.


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From: Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mahabharata CE
To: Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu>


Hi Howard,
Here are the links to pdfs of  volumes 1 thru 19 on  archive.org
vol. 1
https://archive.org/download/SukthankarMbhAdiparvan20141026/Sukthankar_Mbh_%C4%81diparvan_2014-10-26.pdf
vol.2
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.283220/2015.283220.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 3
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327550/2015.327550.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 4
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327556/2015.327556.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol 5
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327557/2015.327557.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 6
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327547/2015.327547.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 7
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327549/2015.327549.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 8
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327548/2015.327548.The-Mahabharata.pdf
Vol. 9  https://archive.org/download/dli.ernet.277473/277473-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 10
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327555/2015.327555.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol 11
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.485492/2015.485492.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 12
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327551/2015.327551.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 13
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.485851/2015.485851.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 14
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327558/2015.327558.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 15
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.486148/2015.486148.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 16
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327561/2015.327561.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 17
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327560/2015.327560.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 18
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327565/2015.327565.The-Mahabharata.pdf
vol. 19
https://archive.org/download/in.ernet.dli.2015.327564/2015.327564.The-Mahabharata.pdf
Harry Spier


On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:

> My sincere gratitude.
>
> On Mar 27, 2024, at 12:32 PM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Ill send you the links later today
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024, 12:05 PM Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Harry!
>>
>> I’m afraid I am rather inept at internet searches and am having trouble
>> finding the BORI MBh at archive.org. Any help here would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Howard
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2024, at 9:19 PM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Howard,
>> A quick look at archive.org shows that many of the earlier volumes are
>> downloadable .  I see up to vol. 19 by Sukthankar.
>> Harry Spier
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list members,
>>> Shouldn't many of the volumes of the BORI critical edition now be in the
>>> public domain?.
>>> This wikipedia page on the Indian copyright law
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_India
>>> states that for works published before 1958 the Indian Copyright Act,
>>> 1914 is applicable.
>>> And the Indian copyright act of 1914 (link below)
>>> https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/in/in121en.
>>> pdf page 20 (pdf page 16) states:
>>> 3. The term for which copyright shall subsist shall, except as otherwise
>>> exressly provided by this Act, be the life of the author and a period of 50
>>> years after his death:. . . .
>>>
>>> Harry Spier
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 7:51 PM Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <
>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Scholars,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to get a digital version of the B.O.R.I. Critical
>>>> Edition of Mahabharata? If not, are the hard copies that are for sale more
>>>> durable than the old ones which seem to fall apart with use?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and best wishes,
>>>> Howard
>>>>
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>>
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