[INDOLOGY] texts

[Dominik Wujastyk]

On 20 Jan I sent a message containing the appended text to this list.  I
reproduce it here because our list archives are still being processed and
are unavailable at the moment.  If someone will do some random sampling and
provide an average figure *W* of how many works are mentioned on each page
of NCC, then you can work out a rough figure *T* for the total number of
known Skt and Pkt works,

*T* = (*W* x 350 x 19) / .82

E.g., if there are 15 works per page, then there would be 121,646 works in
Skt and Pkt documented in NCC.

Does this feel about right?

Dominik


The NCC isn't finished.  Only nineteen volumes have been published,
> bringing it up to the end of ma (म), 37th letter of the alphabet.  There
> are 8 more letters of the alphabet to go, so NCC is about 37/45x100=82%
> done.   Each volume is about 350 pages.  Each page has about 50 MSS
> mentioned (this is *very* rough! - per-page counts vary wildly).  So each
> volume mentions 17,500 catalogued MSS, and there are 19 vols, so that comes
> out at 332,500 MSS mentioned so far.  And that's 82%.  So the total would
> be 405,487.  Say half a million.
>
>
>
On 25 February 2013 00:29, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:

>  Dear Herman,
>
> Perhaps the New Catalogus Catalogorum could be used at least to get an
> idea. But
> for starters:
>
> The Peking edition of the Tibetan Buddhist canon includes roughly 5500
> Sanskrit
> (including BHS, Apabhraṁśa and a few Pali) works in Tibetan translation.
> Many of
> these are by no means "books" - in some cases, for instance, a single
> brief poem is a unique entry.
>
> The Taishō Sino-Japanese Tripiṭaka includes about 1600 works of Indian
> origin. I do not know
> if there is a readily available calculation of the degree of duplication
> with the Tibetan collections.
>
> The current index to Karl Potter's bibliography of Indian Philosophy lists
> 8530 titles,
> a few hundred of which are titles also belonging to the Tibetan and/or
> Chinese canons.
>
> I imagine that the late David Pingree's Census of the Exact Sciences might
> similarly
> afford some impression of the volume of literature in the astral and
> mathematical
> sciences.
>
> Perhaps this is at least a start.
>
> Good luck!
> Matthew
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
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