Talk:Aankhon Dekhi Sanch (आंखों देखी सांच)

Source of all the information for this book is the e-book found at Osho World. How the title is supposed to be actually written is the main concern of the natterings mentioned. In all of OW's Hindi e-books, the Devanagari form of the title appears at the top of every page. Here, it is mysteriously a little above the top, so that only the bottoms of some of the letters can be seen (img above right), protruding below the line which separates the pages. Therefore, some guessing is involved, but there is a decent chance it is close. And -- one important aspect -- even this tiny glimpse of the letters' feet at least verifies that Aankhon Dekhi Sanch is the whole title, something you can't always count on when going from the OW menu to the actual pdf, since they not infrequently use short versions of titles there.

About the details of the Devanagari rendering, we are most concerned about Aankhon. G**gle Translate suggests आँखों for that. We have used आंखों (close) since it more closely resembles the आंखन in Main Kahta Aankhan Dekhi (मैं कहता आंखन देखी). Only at the end of the word is there a difference (and that's another story) but in the root they align. And that candrabindu diacritic (the mark over आँ) is very uncommon all-round and आंखों finds it in searches so it looks to be preferred.

Why is the Aankhon/आंखों in this title different from the Aankhan/आंखन in MKAD? They both mean the same, and combined with Dekhi, "Eyes Have Seen." But it seems that will have to remain a mystery.

Meanwhile, the TOC: Page numbers are those in the e-book where the data were found. No actual chapter numbers were there but have been inserted here.

1. जीवन की खोज -- Ghatkopar, Mumbai 16 Apr 1966 (p 18)

2. स्वयं की खोज -- Birla Kreeda Kendra, Chowpati, Mumbai 17 Apr 1966 (p 40)

?. [same title] -- same place and date, identical text where sampled, looks like a repeat of previous chapter, even the same length (p 62)

3. सत्य काबोध -- SS College, Pune 11 Jun 1966 subah (p 74)

4. प्रशन-शुन्य चित्त -- SS College, Pune 12 Jun 1966 subah (p 86) (Prashan unable to be replicated completely, current fashion has the vertical bar in श, pdf does not)

5. स्वतंत्रता, सरलता, शून्यता -- SS College, Pune 12 Jun 1966 shama (p 102)

6. जीवन और धर्म -- Ferguson College, Pune 15 Sep 1966 subah (p 123)