среда, 22 июля 2020 г.

"Gautamiya-Maha-Tantram" [Krishna/Govinda/Gopala Tantra] - Hindi-Sanskrit - Srinivasa Sharma, Chaukhamba Surabharati Prakashana Varanasi


DOWNLOAD (Sanskrit-Hindi, optimized scan, 20MB):

English annotation by Vishnudut1926: This is a typical Gopala-Tantra with the very heavy accent on Govinda/GopijanaVallabha Mantras - a kind you can find within Shree Nimbarka-Sampradaya, for example. 

I am reading it this week - good, solid Tantra, NOT a kind of sentimental, village, anti-Vaishnava mumble-jumble, you can often meet in illiterate cults, dedicated to Kali-Yuga Krishna. 

Maybe, I will publish a couple of articles about this Tantra, but can't promise! 

The full name of the edition: 

महर्षिगौतमप्रणीतं गौतमीयमहातन्त्रम् 'ज्योत्स्ना' भाषाभाष्योपेतम् (श्रीकृष्ण का तान्त्रिक अर्चन-विवेचक ग्रन्थ) भाषाभाष्यकार: आचार्य श्रीनिवास शर्मा चौखम्बा सुरभारती प्रकाशन वाराणसी - maharShigautamapraNItaM gautamIyamahAtantram 'jyotsnA' bhAShAbhAShyopetam (shrIkRRiShNa kA tAntrika archana-vivechaka grantha) bhAShAbhAShyakAra: AchArya shrInivAsa sharmA chaukhambA surabhAratI prakAshana vArANasI

See also "KramaDipika" by Shree Keshava Bhatta Kashmiri (Shree Nimbarka-Sampradaya), it is in a similar vein -  http://vishnudut1926.blogspot.com/2016/01/kramadipika-by-kashmirika-keshava.html

Scan page example (click to enlarge, see also on #plurk):


T H I S   S C A N   B E L O N G S   T O   T H E   F A M I L Y   O F   M Y   C O M P A C T  
 V A I S H N A V A   E - L I B R A R I E S ,   T H E Y   C A N   B E   F O U N D   O N :  
Wordpress (a catalogue with pictures and cloud links to PDF-scans) - #Wordpress
Nimbus (this is just a TXT-version without pictures) - #Nimbus
Airborn (the mirror of Wordpress) - #Airborn
                                  GoogleDocs (the mirror of Wordpress) - #GoogleDocs

"Sri Ahirbudhnya-Samhita" - Sanskrit-Hindi - Sudhakar Malaviya [optimized scan - 38MB, 705 pages]


DOWNLOAD (Sanskrit-Hindi, 38MB):

English annotation by Vishnudut1926: Sanskrit-Hindi edition of "Sri Ahibudhnya-Samhita" - one of the principal PanchaRatra-Samhitas for Shree Ramanuja-Sampradaya (Sri Vaishnava-Sampradaya). 


I have created an optimized version as usually, decreasing the scan size to 38MB without quality loss. You can find information about my scan optimization methods in #this article and in #this one as well. 

The full name of the edition - अहिर्बुध्न्यसंहिता (श्रीपाञ्चरात्रागमान्तर्गता) 'सरला' हिन्दीटीकोपेता सम्पादकः व्याख्याकारश्च सुधाकर मालवीयः - ahirbudhnyasaMhitA (shrIpA~ncharAtrAgamAntargatA) 'saralA' hindITIkopetA sampAdakaH vyAkhyAkArashcha sudhAkara mAlavIyaH

Scan page example (click to enlarge, see also on #plurk):


T H I S   S C A N   B E L O N G S   T O   T H E   F A M I L Y   O F   M Y   C O M P A C T  
 V A I S H N A V A   E - L I B R A R I E S ,   T H E Y   C A N   B E   F O U N D   O N :  
Wordpress (a catalogue with pictures and cloud links to PDF-scans) - #Wordpress
Nimbus (this is just a TXT-version without pictures) - #Nimbus
Airborn (the mirror of Wordpress) - #Airborn
                                  GoogleDocs (the mirror of Wordpress) - #GoogleDocs

An alternative and totally free way of making optimized scan [JP2 + XnConvert + NAPS2]


This week I have found a bunch of very chunky scans on archive.org - 300-700MB each. Check, for example, this heavy scan of "Gautamiya-Maha-Tantra" (this one is actually a Krishna-Tantra, by the way), it nibbles up 353MB on HDD - https://archive.org/details/gautamiya-maha-tantram-acharya-srinivas-sharma 

My common method of optimizing via ScanTailor/NAPS2 [#see my detailed 2019 post] had failed to process all these chubby scans, so I have invented the new one. 

ALTERNATIVE METHOD - STEP BY STEP:

STEP 01 - JP2 to JPEG via XnConvert. Archive.org always provides users with a set of JP2-sources, but NAPS2 rejects this format, so we need to convert JP2 to JPEG at first. 

XnConvert handles this task easily: the conversion of about 300 JP2-files takes up around 10 minutes. You got to change only OUTPUT settings like on the screenshot below (see also on #plurk):


After the batch conversion you will get an increased output - for example, if you had, let's say, 300MB of JP2-files, you would get more than 600MB of JPEG-files. 

STEP2 - Black and White trick in NAPS2. Now it's time to batchload all JPEG-files to NAPS2 and process them via "Image - Black and White" option. 

Please note, that different scans can require various thickness tuning - I usually use 440 points - see the screenshot below (also on #plurk):


After Black and White conversion just press "Save PDF" and your optimized file is ready! 
Actually, this B/W trick shrinks the output in the very enormous way. For example, the original scan of Gautamiya on archive.org is 353MB, while this method gives you just a 20MB (!!!!) pdf-file with the same quality!
Vishnudut1926, Moscow, July 2020 
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