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Copyright & Provenance

The digital typeset edition of Macdonell's A Vedic Grammar for Students combines an open public-domain heritage with state-of-the-art open-access practices.

🏛️ Historical Work

  • Author: Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1854–1930), Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford.
  • Title: A Vedic Grammar for Students (including a chapter on syntax and three appendices: list of verbs, metre, accent).
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press, London & Oxford, 1916.
  • Copyright Status: Arthur Anthony Macdonell passed away in 1930. Under copyright law in the European Union, Switzerland, and the United States (70 years post mortem auctoris / works published prior to 1928), the historical edition is in the Public Domain worldwide.

🛠️ Digital Typesetting & TEI Encoding

Digitization, optical reconstruction, TEI-P5 structuring, and typographic vector typesetting were executed through the AlexandriaSandwich Pipeline for the Birchville Foundation.

Core Components

  1. Typst Typesetting Engine: High-precision type area with automated running headers and register pagination.

  2. TEI-P5 XML: Standardized archival master format marking roots, citations, and structural morphology.

  3. EPUB 3: Reflowable e-book format for reading on handheld devices.
  4. PyMuPDF Outline Pipeline: Script-driven injection of the 81-step outline tree and Roman/Arabic page labels.

⚖️ Licensing

1. Typesetting Code, Scripts & Data

All Typst code, TEI-P5 XML documents, EPUB builders, Markdown source texts, and Python scripts are released under the MIT License:

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2. Scholarly Use

Scholarly reuse, citation, and integration into computational linguistic corpora or academic courses are expressly welcome.