Thanks for the technical help here. As for the good books,
they are all in Thai. They are available in Bangkok in the old
book stores near Tha Prajan as well as a couple indepent book
dealers near Wat Sraket. A couple are really massive tomes,
but well worth it I think. Next time you make it down to BKK,
check them out. I can bring a couple to you next time I am in
Vientiane, which could be in November, but more likely next
June. Soi 7 off of Oon Nut in BKK also has some good stuff for
horasat enthusiasts.
Its a good subject, keep digging.
Best,
justin
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 15:52:33 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: Re: [palistudy] SEA Calendrical systems, E.J. Brill
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>
>Hi Justin,
>
> (1) I'm glad to hear that Eade's book has been surpassed
--I, too,
>am aware of certain limitations as I am working my way through it
>(although my interests are different from yours).
>
> (2) I *do not* find that it provides a good glossary --on the
>contrary, I think this is precisely what it lacks the most!
> Most shockingly, it omits any diacritical markings for the
Sanskrit
>terms! It would be quite a lot of work for me to "guess" any
of the
>correct spellings (be they Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, or
Sanskrit!)
>given the vagueness of the romanization. He presumes that
you already
>have a shelf of other works to provide you with the original
spellings
>(non-transliterated) of the terminology!
>
> (3) The computer programme requries Mac OS-9 *or* a current Mac
>(viz., OS-10, "osx") with the supplemental software installed to
>emulate OS9. In other words: it is obsolete, and annoying to run
>unless you have a computer of the same vintage.
>
> I am trying to establish a platform-independent solution by
>programming the equations directly into a spreadsheet that
could be
>used on any computer (e.g., with the free software OpenOffice, or
>MS-Excel).
>
> However, I think that he does not provide *all* of the
equations I
>would need to do this, as he frequently alludes to two other
works,
>and leaves the math tacit so as not to rehearse their findings.
>
> Thus, if you want to Xerox copy yet more resources and mail
them to
>me here in Vientiane, I will probably be able to put them to
good use.
>
> Even I am astonished that I find this kind of work
interesting --but I do.
>
>E.M.
>
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
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University of California, Riverside
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