Thursday 7 September 2017

Naval Kishore Press - digital


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.

Naval Kishore Press - Thematic portal on CrossAsia
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.

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.


OCRed Devanagari text from "Samasa cakra", highlighting "Visnu"

Facsimile page from "Samasa cakra", highlighting "Visnu"














 Some of the already OCRed texts are:
  • Tulasīdāsa: Rāmāyaasaīka. Lakhanaū, 1894.
  •        Kanhaiyālāla: Samāsa cakra. Lakhanaū, 1883.
  •        Dūdhadāsa: Rāmāśvamedha bhāā. Lakhanaū, 1900.
  •        Jacobi, Hermann: Jaina aura baudha ka bheda: Jain and baudhs taken from the introduction to the Bhadrabahu's Kalpasutra. Lakhanaū, 1897.
  •        J̱ālimasiha: Brahmadarpaa: upanyāsa. Lakhnaū, 1917.
  •        Jayadeva; Rāyacanda Nāgara: Gītagovindādarśa: arthāt Rāyacanda Nāgara-kta Gītagovinda saskta kā bhāā-pratibiba. Lakhnaū, 1926.
  •        Jānakī Prasāda Ātma Pyārelāla: Rāgavinoda: jisame bhajana, humrī, dādarā, pūrvī, bihāga, khammāca, kajarī, addhā, g̱aj̱ala, lāvanī va dohe ādi anekarāga varita 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) 

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