Listen "1. McComas Taylor | Purāṇas, Open Access and Wild Geese"
Episode Synopsis
In this first episode we speak with McComas Taylor. Hailing from the Australian National University in Canberra, McComas is a pioneer of online Sanskrit teaching and ardent supporter of open-access publishing. He talks to Antonia about how he vowed under a full moon to learn Sanskrit, about his reading the Mahābhārata every day, about the secrets behind his hugely popular online courses, and his brand-new, freely available translation of the Viṣṇupurāṇa. Links to books and pages mentionedMcComas Taylor at the ANUThe Fall of the Indigo Jackal The Little Red Book (online version | pdf download)The Joy of SanskritThe Vishnupurana
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