Overview and Help
Overview
The digital library is a consolidated catalog and central access point
to all of the texts of the Muktabodha collection whether they are
e-texts or photographic facsimiles. Most but not all of the
Tantric/Agamic texts are e-texts. In some cases where an e-text in the KSTS
series exists
in another public collection Muktabodha has not created an e-text from
that volume. The Vedic collection only exists as
photographic facsimiles and only a few of the Devikottai series photographic
facsimiles have been converted into searchable e-texts. Whenever a text exists
as both a searchable e-text and a photographic facsimile then both of these are
accessed from a single catalog record.
Help
To view a catalog record click on the title of the text in the catalog listing to the left.
To view a text first display catalog record and then click on the link to the text within the catalog record.
Searching e-texts or catalog records
To search for Sanskrit words use either
Velthuis or Harvard-Kyoto transliteration.
Enclose Velthuis in {} and Harvard-Kyoto in <>
Example: to find all lines containing the word śiva enter <ziva> or {"siva} in the Search for: field.
Regular expressions may be used, for example:
•to find all lines containing śiva or śaiva
enter <ziva>|<zaiva>or enter{"siva}|{"saiva}
•to find all lines containing both śiva and śakti
enter <ziva>.*<zakti>or enter {"siva}.*{"saiva}
•to find all lines beginning with śiva
enter ^<ziva>or enter ^{"siva}
To limit search to texts by a particular author or commentator
or to texts with a particular title or titles
Enter the author/commentator name in the author contains: field
or enter the title name in the title contains: field.
For example to limit the search to texts authored by kṣemarāja
enter either <kSemarAja> or {k.semaraaja} .
To limit the search to texts with the title kramadīpikā
enter either <kramadIpikA> or {kramadiipikaa}
in the title contains: field.
Partial names may be entered and is recommended.
For example: entering <kSema> or {k.sema}
in the author contains: field will limit the search to those texts whose author contains kṣema i.e. kṣemarāja .
Entering <Isvara> or {ii"svara}
in the author contains: field will limit the search to those texts whose title contains Izvara i.e. īśvarasiddhi and īśvarapratyabhijñāvivṛtivimarśinī etc.
If the title contains: field and the title contains:
fields are left blank then the entire collection is searched.
Filtering searchs by subject
To limit a search to a particular subject
click the subject with the mouse.
To limit search to more than one subject
hold the control key down and click each subject with the mouse.
Clicking on any subject without depressing the ctrl key
clears all previous subject selections.
Selected subjects are highlighted in blue
Sanskrit Transliteration Schemes
| Letter | HK | Velthuis |
|---|---|---|
| ā | A | aa |
| ī | I | ii |
| ū | U | uu |
| ṛ | R | .r |
| ṝ | RR | .R |
| ḷ | lR | .l |
| ḹ | lRR | .L |
| ṭ | T | .t |
| ḍ | D | .d |
| Letter | HK | Velthuis |
|---|---|---|
| ṅ | G | "n |
| ñ | J | ~n |
| ṇ | N | .n |
| ṃ | M | .m |
| ṁ | M | .m |
| ṣ | S | .s |
| ś | z | "s |
| ḥ | H | .h |
| ' | ' | .a |
Metadata
Metadata is machine-readable data used to describe a bibliographic collection. To support the inclusion of the Muktabodha on-line digital library in library catalogs and archival finding aids, metadata for the digital library is provided in the most common internationally used formats: MARCxml format, Encoded Archival Description format and Dublin Core format. Click on the links below to access the metadata files.These files are in machine readable formats in XML intended for processing by cataloging or finding aid software. Though it is still possible for a user to view the underlying structure of the metadata files by using the "view source" feature in the browser.
MARC format is the most common format for the representation and communication of bibliographic information in machine readable form. MARCxml is the XML representation of MARC bibliographic data. It was developed by the Library of Congress and the MARC standards office. For more information about both the MARC standard and the MARCxml implementation see: http://www.loc.gov/marc/
EAD (Encoded Archival Description) is a nonproprietary encoding standard for machine-readable finding aids such as inventories, registers, indexes, and other documents created by archives, libraries, museums, and manuscript repositories to support the use of their holdings.
The EAD standard was originally developed by the Society of American Archivists. The Library of Congress Network Development and MARC Standards Office now serve as the maintenance agency for the EAD standard. It is designed to be an international standard with global input from worldwide archival institutions. For more information about the EAD standard see http://www.loc.gov/ead/
The Dublin Core Metadata standard is designed to be a simple international standard to facilitate the finding, sharing and management of information. For more information about the Dublin Core standard see http://dublincore.org/