[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit literature in numbers

[Dagmar Wujastyk]

Dear Camillo,

I must admit I am a bit uncertain where to draw the line. Trying to
quantify Latin literature, I think I would want total numbers that could
then be split up in classical and then everything later? I am not sure what
the cut off date would be.

Best, Dagmar



On 19 April 2017 at 10:19, Camillo Formigatti <
camillo.formigatti at bodleian.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Dagmar,
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> This is a very interesting question indeed. May I add two other questions
> to it? Would you like to know the numbers of extant works only or the
> number of works in general, even if lost? Also, when you write Latin
> language, for instance, do you mean only classical Latin (whatever this
> might mean) or every work that has been written in Latin until today (and
> I’m not thinking of today’s Latin used in the Vatican, I was rather
> thinking of authors like the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1855 –1912),
> who wrote poems in Latin too)?
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> Best wishes,
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> Camillo
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> *From:* Dagmar Wujastyk [mailto:d.wujastyk at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 19 April 2017 16:53
> *To:* indology <INDOLOGY at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit literature in numbers
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> Dear colleagues,
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> Might anyone be able to point me to a publication/data on the relative
> quantities of Sanskrit works and other pre-modern works in languages such
> as Latin, Chinese, Tamil, Arabic or Persian?
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> We all know that there is a very large body of Sanskrit literature, but
> how does the number of Sanskrit works compare to works written in other
> languages? My sense has always been that Sanskrit literature is
> particularly large, but perhaps this is not substantiated by data?
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> Best wishes,
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> Dagmar Wujastyk
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