Lots of thanks goes to....

... these guys who, by their effort, made the bellow blogs available.

http://sanskritebooks.wordpress.com/
http://bharateeya.wordpress.com/
http://hinduebooks.blogspot.com/

On these blogs one can find tons of sanskrit e-books.

The oldest Sanskrit grammar writen by an european

I just learned about it from "The Sanskrit Grammar and Manuscripts of Father Heinrich Roth S.J. 1620-1668: Facsimile Edition of Biblioteca Nazionale Rome Mss or 171 and 172". This grammar was never printed, the first page of the manuscript can be seen bellow.

The above mentioned book also contains two manuscripts, one of Sadānada's Vedāntasāra and one of Veṇīdatta's Pañcatattvaprakāśa along with Father Roth's commentary.

The Śaiva Age

A new article by professor Alexis Sanderson is now available on his site. The Śaiva Age is part of a bigger work named Genesis and development of Tantrism, the result of collaboration of great scholars in the field and published at the University of Tokyo.

Scholastic Sanskrit

As a beginner trying to find my way in a commentary, I often got discouraged by the technical language used and soon I had to drop it. Now, thanks to my friend Péter who pointed it to me, I am in possession of a great book, "Scholastic Sanskrit" by Gary A. Tubb & Emery R. Boose.
This Book helps you to understand and use the five services provided by commentaries:

1. padaccheda - division of words;
2. padārthokti - statement of the meaning of the words;
3. vigraha - analysis of complex formations;
4. vākyayojanā - construing the sentences;
5. ākṣepasamādhāna - the answering of objections.

Tāntrikābhidhānakośa

Or what contains my wish list.

It seems that I must spend a huge amount of money to get this dictionary planed for five volumes. I hope Somadeva will keep the references page available as long as he can. In the mean time I will save on my computer. For the moment these two volume can be bought from here and here.

Prof. Alexis Sanderson's review to Lilian Silburn translation to Sivasūtra

The original review.

Lilian Silburn : Sivasūtra et Vimarśinī de Kṣemarāja. (Études sur le Śivaisme du Cachemire, École Spanda.)
Traduc­tion et introduction. (Publications de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne, Serie in-8°, Fasc. 47.) viii, 193 pp., 1 plate. Paris : Institut de Civilisa­tion Indienne, 1980. (Distribution: Diffusion E. De Boccard, 11 rue de Medicis, Paris VIe.)