The Naval Kishore Press was founded in Lakhnau in 1858 by Munshi
Naval Kishore (1836-1895) and grew in the following decades to one of
India's most important publishing houses.
The Library of the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University holds with its ca. 2,000 titles - 742 on microfilm - issued by the Naval Kishore Press a representative cross section of the Press' publications.
On our
thematic portal Naval Kishore Press you now have access not only to the
Naval Kishore Press Bibliography, but also to digitised Sanskrit and Hindi
works from the collection.
The Library of the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University holds with its ca. 2,000 titles - 742 on microfilm - issued by the Naval Kishore Press a representative cross section of the Press' publications.
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| Naval Kishore Press - Thematic portal on CrossAsia |
Among the
44 digitised works 22 titles have already been OCRed and converted to searchable
and editable digital texts in Devanāgarī script and Latin transliteration. They
can be accessed on Naval Kishore Press – digital.
The
presentation platform offers a full text search in both scripts. A word or
phrase found by searching the full text will be highlighted in the facsimile.
Furthermore users can download a high quality OCR-PDF of the facsimile, where
the text is fully searchable either in Devanāgarī script or in Latin
transliteration.
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| OCRed Devanagari text from "Samasa cakra", highlighting "Visnu" |
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| Facsimile page from "Samasa cakra", highlighting "Visnu" |
Some of the already OCRed texts are:
- Tulasīdāsa: Rāmāyaṇasaṭīka. Lakhanaū, 1894.
- Kanhaiyālāla: Samāsa cakra. Lakhanaū, 1883.
- Dūdhadāsa: Rāmāśvamedha bhāṣā. Lakhanaū, 1900.
- Jacobi, Hermann: Jaina aura baudha ka bheda: Jain and baudhs taken from the introduction to the Bhadrabahu's Kalpasutra. Lakhanaū, 1897.
- J̱ālimasiṃha: Brahmadarpaṇa: upanyāsa. Lakhnaū, 1917.
- Jayadeva; Rāyacanda Nāgara: Gītagovindādarśa: arthāt Rāyacanda Nāgara-kṛta Gītagovinda saṃskṛta kā bhāṣā-pratibiṃba. Lakhnaū, 1926.
- Jānakī Prasāda Ātma Pyārelāla: Rāgavinoda: jisameṃ bhajana, ṭhumrī, dādarā, pūrvī, bihāga, khammāca, kajarī, addhā, g̱aj̱ala, lāvanī va dohe ādi anekarāga varṇita haiṃ. Lakhnaū, 1914.
More texts
are in preparation. We are looking forward to your feedback!
For
questions and suggestions please contact:
Nicole Merkel-Hilf
Subject librarian, Digital Collections
(merkel@ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
Subject librarian, Digital Collections
(merkel@ub.uni-heidelberg.de)
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