[INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives

Tue Feb 1 19:20:03 UTC 2022

You can also find some speculative remarks on (hypothetical) libraries in
Buddhist Gandhara in my *Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara* (1999), by
looking up "libraries (in Buddhist monasteries)" in the index.

Rich Salomon

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:00 AM Marco Franceschini via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Christian,
>
> thank you for collecting together all the information that you received
> and for circulating them to all of us!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Marco
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> Il giorno 1 feb 2022, alle ore 08:41, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> ha scritto:
>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> many many thanks to everyone who answered my query - Timothy Cahill,
> Charles DiSimone, Eli Franco, Matthew Kapstein, Suhas Mahesh, Jonathan
> Silk, Péter-Dániel Szántó, and Herman Tull! I forward an impressing list of
> your collected suggestions on the topic:
>
> - Gérard Fussman, "Dans quel type de bâtiment furent trouvés les
> manuscrits de Gilgit?", in: Journal Asiatique, 292.1-2 (2004): 101-150;
> - Martin Delhey, The Library at the East Indian Buddhist Monastery of
> Vikramaśīla: an Attempt to Identify Its Himalayan Remains, in: Manuscript
> Cultures 8 (2015): 1-24;
> - O.v. Hinüber: The Gilgit Manuscripts. An Ancient Buddhist Library in
> Modern Research: Introduction, in: From Birch Bark to Digital Data: Recent
> Advances in Buddhist Manuscript Research, ed. Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe
> Hartmann, Vienna 2013.
> - Gregory Schopen: On the absence of Urtext and Otiose Ācāryas: Books,
> Buildings, and Lay Buddhist Ritual at Gilgit, in: Gérard Colas and Gerdi
> Gerschheimer (eds.), Écrire et transmettre en Inde classique. (École
> française d'Extrême-Orient. Études thématiques 23) Paris 2009;
> - Ludo Rocher, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 131 (2011):
> 133-135;
> - Jahnabi Barooah Chanchani, "History from the Margins: Literary Culture
> and Manuscript Production in Western India in the Vernacular Millennium,"
> Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript
> Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2021, pp. 197-222 (
> https://www.academia.edu/67281775/History_from_the_Margins_Literary_Culture_and_Manuscript_Production_in_Western_India_in_the_Vernacular_Millennium
> );
> - Noriyuki Kudo, "On and around the Gilgit Manuscripts in the National
> Archives of India", in: The Journal of Oriental Studies 29 (2019): 168–181;
> - Muni Jambuvijay (ed.), A catalogue of manuscripts in Jaisalmer Jain
> Bhandaras, Delhi 2000;
> - Bimal Kumar Datta, Libraries and Librarianship of Ancient and Medieval
> India (
> https://archive.org/details/librariesandlibrarianshipofancientandmedievalindiabimalkumardatta_794_o/page/n5/mode/2up
> );
> - Jeremiah Losty, Art of the Book in India (
> https://archive.org/details/artofthebookinindiajeremiahlostyp.bookonprintinghistory_705_f/page/74/mode/2up
> );
> - Barua Pulinbihari, Monastic Libraries in Ancient India as depicted in
> Buddhist and Jaina texts (
> https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/156523?mode=full);
> - Kavīndrācārya List: A list of books in the private library of the famous
> Kavīndrācārya Sarasvatī (~1600 CE) (
> https://archive.org/details/kavindracaryasuc00kaviuoft);
> - Christopher Minkowski, "Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses:
> Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period", in: F. Bretelle and C.
> Proust (eds.), Looking at it from Asia: The Processes that shaped the
> sources of the History of Science,  Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science
> 206 (2010): 81-114.
>
> Yours,
> Christian
>
> Am 31.01.2022 11:49, schrieb Matthew Kapstein:
>
> Dear Christian,
> I recall that Gerard Fussmann had some interesting reflections on the
> Gilgit manuscripts in this respect, but I cannot locate the reference
> just now. Perhaps if this jogs the memory of someone else on the list,
> it can be located.
> I do hope that you post the results of this query to the list as a
> whole - it is a most important topic.
> best regards,
> Matthew
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études, émérite
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
> https://brill.com/view/title/60949
> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein
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> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
> Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2022 4:39 AM
> To: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Premodern Indian libraries and archives
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
> on behalf of an MA student I would like to ask whether you can
> recommend
> literature on ancient Indian libraries and archives, their
> organisation,
> structure, storage etc. in courts, monasteries and in private.
> Thanks in advance,
> Christian Ferstl
> University of Vienna
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