Gurudeva, Hare Krsna
PAMHO AGTSP!!
I am helping in the proyect to collect donations for the printing of the new SB edition in spanish.
We are preparing printed advertising material for devotees who are travelling to many yatras (Bhakti Bhusan Swami, Aravinda Prabhu, Hanuman Prabhu...). With this material they can present the proyect to small and big interested donators. This same material will be used to ask donations from international foundations, or others non devotees sources willing to contribute.
So the same material will be used for devotee and non-devotee public, and for small and big donators.
The idea is to base this promotion in cultural aspects:
Conservation of an ancient scripture.
Conservation of Bhaktivedhanta purports.
SB as a contribution for comming generations
Academic and philosophical value of SB and SP's purports.
So I humbly wanted to ask your kind help to find quotes from the academic circles, helping us to make our advertissing more attractive for all publics, specially non-devotees possible big donators.
Thank you Gurudeva
your servitor, Nitya Kisori dd
asa - agtsp paho. internet, accomodation limited. still in mayapura....
The SrimadBhagavatam.
A Rapid Sanskrit Method
George L. Harte, University of California
MotilalBanarsidass, Dehli, 1989
Preface
“It [sanskrita]is, like Chinese, Arabic, Greek and Latin, one of the few languages which has been a carrier of a culture over a long period of time.
Thus, the variety of writings in it, and the quantity of those writings are staggering. An incomplete list of subjects treated in Sanskrit, usually with great prolixity, is as follows:
On most of these subjects, there is an immense literature still extant. Indeed, a rough estimate of the works which will be listed in The New CatalogusCatalogorumyields a total of about 160,000 works… many so difficult that it would take years of study to properly understand them.
…Sanskrit does have its share of great writers: Kalidasaranks with the greatest poets, Panini is without question the greatest pre-modern grammarian, the Mahabharata ranks with the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the Bhagavata-puranais among the finest works of devotion every written, being equaled in my opinion only by other works in Indian languages.”