[Buddha-l] Clay Sanskrit

[Curt Steinmetz]

Here is another article that is far more explicit and definitive about 
the closing of CSL:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5270/is_2_83/ai_n31440831/

"Requiem for Sanskrit By Willis Goth Regier
Clay was frustrated by the pace of progress: himself fighting a 
crippling disease, he originally planned to complete the zoo-volume 
library by 2010. Its last volumes will appear this year. Clay expected a 
reception for the CSL comparable to its ambition but didn't get it.... 
There was no pent-up appetite for Sanskrit classics..... Against great 
odds, he published a series of successes. Even unfinished, the CSL is 
magnificent..... Grieve for the Clay Sanskrit Library, gone in its 
youth. As the series grew, its notes increased, its introductions 
improved, and its translations..... Regret for the close of the CSL will 
grow as rapidly as the gratitude for its achievements.....  Had Clay 
been able to see the CSL to its goal, English readers would have found 
the way to Sanskrit literature paved for them with handsome books bound 
in emerald blue. Get them while you can and let them take you as far as 
you can go. You will visit marvelous places, with rivers of milk and 
wish-giving trees, where sages debate, poets sing, and captive spirits 
break ancient curses by telling tales of India."

Curt

Jayarava wrote:
> The article that people are citing is
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> Clay Sanskrit Library/New York University Press by ADITYA BEHL. 
> Review published in The Times Literary Supplement, June 19 2009, no. 5542, pp. 3–8.
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> It can be found here: http://is.gd/1ofcq on the CSL site.
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> Last para: "... It is this reviewer’s understanding that this superb series is being closed down midway through its initial plan of a hundred volumes."
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