> Srimate SrivanSatakopa Sri Vedanta Desika Yatindra Mahadesikaya nama: shriirastu In context of this posting, here are a few sites where scanned books are online and I have found quite a few books at the site " the million book project". Here are a couple of downloads. http:www.archive.org/details/BrihadaranyakopanishadBhashya http://www.archive.org/details/SvetasvataradyopanishadPusushasukthaBashyaPart1 http://www.archive.org/details/PrapannaParijatamOfSriVatsyaVaradacharya The Upanishads have commentary by Rangaramanuja Mahadesikan and a condensed form in tamil at the beginning - this , I think, is by Abhinavadesika Uttamur Sri Veeraraghavacharya Swamy. The last one mentioned in the list is the very rare Prapanna Parijatham! There are more at this site including ShriBhashyam. But, sometimes the site is down and we have to keep trying. There is another site http://www.sanskritweb.net/ from which rig and yajur vedas can be downloaded. This one is dedicated to Shri Mukkur Lakshminarasimhachariar. There is http://ff.mum.edu/vedicreserve/ from which almost anything and most of the puranams can be downloaded. None of these are exclusive ShriVaishnava sites. So it is necessary to have a site devoted exclusively to our sampradayam. And we do have to work towards that. A word about individuals who have rare works: Usually they are devout Bhagavathas who are treasuring their collection- so we have to earn their trust before gaining access to them. It may also be necessary to explain what digitizing means, and that their treasures are regarded as treasures by us also; and we are trying to preserve them. Also, there are libraries in the US which have out of print books. Two of these that I know of are University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and Stanford University in CA. (I have heard that University of Pennsylvania also has a collection). The university at Urbana Champaign allowed us to xerox one of their books that was printed in late early 1900's! There are many professors in our community who may have access to these- I hope they will use their connections for digitizing these books. So, to quote Shri Sadagopan Iyengar 'Come, let us help in this holy mission!' and let us make haste! Digitizing is great- we get to keep our books and share them with others also at the same time! Reminds one of the metaphorical 'cake'- except we get to eat, keep, store and share all at the same time! VAsaka doshaH kshantavyaH Subha Venkatesan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Click here to rescue a little child from a life of poverty. http://us.click.yahoo.com/rAWabB/gYnLAA/i1hLAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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