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This README file added by D. Wujastyk, based on extracts from tantra.doc.
18 October 1993.
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The file tantrakhyayika.zip contains a transliteration of the fables of
the first two books of the Tantr-akhy-ayika was made by Lars Martin
Fosse, Research Fellow at the Department for East European and Oriental
Studies at the University of Oslo. The transliteration was made in
1993, based on:

          Tantr-akhy-ayika.
          Die Alteste Fassung des Pancatantra.
          Nach den Handschriften beider Rezensionen
          zum ersten Male herausgegeben 
          von
          Johannes Hertel.
          Berlin 1910.
          Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
          Abhandlungen der koniglichen Gesellschaft der
          Wissenschaften zu Gottingen. 
          Philologisch-Historische Klasse.
          Neue Folge Band XII. Nro. 2.

The method of transliteration, originally written by Peter Schreiner,
Indologische Abteilung,  Universitat Zurich, Ramistr. 68, CH--8001
Zurich, Switzerland, is described in the included file tantra.doc.
Where necessary, the description has been changed by me.

Several programs have been utilized in the encoding of the text. These
include Word for the Macintosh, WordPerfect (PC version) as well as
TUSTEP, the Tuebingen System of Text--Processing Programs ("Tubinger
System von Textverarbeitungs--Programmen"). By the means of TUSTEP and
the appropriate filters (TUSTEP programs written for this purpose), you
can get a printout with proper romanized Sanskrit characters. The text
can easily be converted to other formats.

Error discoveries and comments can be addressed to:
Lars Martin Fosse,
Department of East European and Oriental Studies
University of Oslo
POB 1030, Blindern
0315 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 85 68 48
Fax: +47 22 85 41 40
Email: fosse@hedda.uio.no