Clay Sanskrit Library

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Kālidāsa's The Recognition of Shakúntala (lit. 'अभिज्ञानशकुन्तलम्'), ed. Somadeva Vasudeva.

The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation. Each work features the text in its original language (transliterated Sanskrit) on the left-hand page, with its English translation on the right. The series was inspired by the Loeb Classical Library,[1] and its volumes are bound in teal cloth.

History

The Clay Sanskrit Library (CSL) is the product of the JJC Foundation, a charitable foundation established by John P. and Jennifer Clay, along with New York University Press.[2] John Peter Clay was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1934. He won a scholarship to attend St Paul's School, London in 1947. In 1951, he was offered a full scholarship by the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he achieved a First-class degree in Sanskrit, Old Persian and Avestan. He was later appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Queen's College. On leaving Oxford, Clay joined Vickers da Costa, a stockbroking firm based in the City of London. He spent 25 years at Vickers, becoming Deputy Chairman and an elected Member of the London Stock Exchange council. In 1982, he left Vickers and moved to New York City, where he founded the international investment management company Clay Finlay Inc.[3]

In the late 1990s, when he was semi-retired, Clay decided to return to his early passion, Sanskrit literature: he envisioned a series that would make the classics easily available to the general public for the first time. He shared his ambitions for the CSL with Richard Gombrich (also an alumnus of St Paul’s School, London), who was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University from 1976 to 2004.[4] Richard Gombrich was appointed General Editor of the Clay Sanskrit Library.[4] Sanskrit scholars Somadeva Vasudeva and Isabelle Onians were appointed Associate Editors, and thirty academics from eight countries were appointed to produce new translations of classical Sanskrit texts. In 2007, Sheldon Pollock joined Gombrich as Co-General Editor, and Gombrich resigned in early 2008.[3] In 2009, the CSL ended its initial project[5][2] and in 2010 Pollock joined the Murty Classical Library of India,[6] which seeks to publish works in Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages. John Clay died in 2013,[2] following complications from multiple sclerosis.[3] In early 2016, Camillo Formigatti (formerly of the University of Cambridge[3]) became John Clay Sanskrit Librarian at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford,[7][8] where previously in 2010 the JJC Foundation had sponsored a CSL international outreach program led by Matt Kimberly.[3][9]

Publication History

NYU Press. Selected titles may be purchased individually, in a 56 volume complete set or in mini-sets, grouped thematically.[10]

In 2016, in conjunction with

Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iBooks, Google Play and KOBO
. The eCSL collection comprises 20 volumes. In November 2019, in conjunction with the JJC Foundation, the Bodleian Library published A SANSKRIT TREASURY: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library with a foreword by Amartya Sen. The lavishly illustrated Compendium (ISBN 978-1-85124-5314) is produced by Dr. Camillo Formigatti, the John Clay Sanskrit Librarian. It contains excerpts from the CSL collection. These excerpts are paired with manuscripts from the Bodleian Library from the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions, and Mughal miniatures.

John. P. Clay Sanskrit Scholarship

CSL and The Queen's College, Oxford is funding the John P Clay Graduate Scholarship in Manuscript and Text Cultures: Sanskrit. In October 2018 the Scholarship was awarded to Tara (Fabienne) Hathaway.

List of volumes

Epic

Maha·bhárata
Ramáyana by Valmíki

Classical poetry

Drama

Other narrative

Notes

  1. ^ Banks 2005–2006.
  2. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d e "CSL People". Clay Sanskrit Library. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b Regier 2006.
  5. ^ Kuruvilla, Elizabeth (24 January 2015). "The modern revivalists". Live Mint. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  6. ^ Shekhar, Divya; Aravind, Indulekha (3 March 2016). "Rohan Murty says American Indologist Sheldon Pollock to stay". The Economic Times. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  7. ^ Evison, Gillian (25 January 2016). "John Clay Sanskrit Librarian". Bodleian Libraries Blog. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Contact us". Weston Library, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  9. ^ "Clay Sanskrit Library". Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Clay Sanskrit Library". NYU Press. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

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