[INDOLOGY] NGMCP

Mon Aug 11 01:37:10 UTC 2025

Dear Sam,

No, as far as I know this kind of searching isn't possible in the
descriptive entries.  The data is just plain text files, not structured
into separate fields.

It's a kludge, but since the so-called titles of each file is tagged with
the HTML code <title> ... </title>, you could do a plain text search across
all entries in the directory looking for a regular expression pattern with
grep like this:

grep -il "<title>.*haritāl.*</title>" *

Best,
Dominik

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 09:08, Samuel Grimes via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Following up, thank you so much to Tyler and Dominik for showing how to
> make the database navigable again. I was in a panic when the wiki began to
> 404.
>
> A question I have that I hope those who showed how to make the database
> available again is: is there a way to search for words that appear in the
> entry, but not the title? For example, if I want to see what colophons have
> the word "bhikṣunī", on the original wiki I could search the word and
> all mss with the searched term in their catalog entry would populate in the
> search results. I cannot figure out if this is now possible. This (
> https://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/content/search/ngmcpdocument.xed)
> seems the most promising place to do so, but I have not had any luck in my
> attempts so far.
>
> Thank you again for making the database available!
> Sam
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> confirmed! Thank you Tim! (glad there is a philologist here, and it's
>> obviously not me!)
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM Lubin, Tim <lubint at wlu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Jonathan, No institutional lapse this time — just delete the spurious
>>> “kindly” that was accidently added to the end of the URL!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of
>>> INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Reply-To: *Jonathan Silk <kauzeya at gmail.com>
>>> *Date: *Friday, July 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
>>> *To: *"Michaels, Prof. Dr. Axel" <michaels at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de>
>>> *Cc: *INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] NGMCP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear Axel
>>>
>>> Perhaps there is a message here, echoing concerns expressed on this list
>>> in the last 24 hours: when I try the link you provide to the Academy, I get
>>> only
>>> Page not found
>>>
>>> The requested page could not be found.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM Michaels, Prof. Dr. Axel via INDOLOGY <
>>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just to complement Dominik’s list:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is an almost comprehensive catalogue of c. 100.000 Nepalese
>>> documents photographed by the NGMPP and sustainably maintained by the
>>> Heidelberg Academy of sciences and Humanities:
>>> https://nepalica.hadw-bw.de/nepal/catitems/index/0?page=4. The project
>>> cataloguing these data will last until October 2028. It will then have
>>> covered all metadata. For more information including access to the scans,
>>> see
>>> https://www.hadw-bw.de/en/research/research-center/documents-history-religion-and-law-pre-modern-nepalkindly
>>> or contact nepal[at]hadw-bw.de <nepal at hadw-bw.de>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Axel / Michaels
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of "
>>> indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Reply to: *Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
>>> *Date: *Friday, 18. July 2025 at 00:33
>>> *To: *Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill at gmail.com>
>>> *Cc: *"indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
>>> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] NGMCP
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to thank Tyler Neill and Claudius Teodorescu for
>>> discussions about how to save and make available the data of the NGMCP
>>> Wiki.  My original panic about this has subsided now, since Hamburg
>>> yesterday put a simplified version of the data online again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tyler has already explained matters clearly.  In future you can consult
>>> this data at either of the following sites:
>>>
>>>    - https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/ngmcp/index.html
>>>    - https://tylergneill.github.io/ngmcp-wiki-mirror
>>>
>>> This data provides descriptive information on nearly 16,000 manuscripts.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A much simpler, searchable index of these *and many more *manuscripts
>>> is still available at Hamburg under the titles "Online Title List" and
>>> "Indic Manuscripts".  I think there are 117,406 manuscripts in this index:
>>>
>>>    -
>>>    https://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/content/search/ngmcpdocument.xed
>>>
>>> And the Nepalese National Archives themselves provide a searchable
>>> index.  I don't know if it is based on the same data as the Hamburg "Online
>>> title list", but I think that is likely.  The NAK index says it has data on
>>> 114,552 manuscripts:
>>>
>>>    -   http://narchives.gov.np/List.aspx
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Dominik
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Dominik Wujastyk, Professor Emeritus, Classical Indian History
>>>
>>> University of Alberta
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "The University of Alberta is committed to the pursuit of truth,
>>>
>>> the advancement of learning, and the dissemination of knowledge
>>>
>>> through teaching, research and other scholarly and creative activities
>>> and service."
>>>
>>> -- Collective Agreement
>>> <https://www.ualberta.ca/human-resources-health-safety-environment/media-library/my-employment/agreements/2020-2024-collective-agreement---working-version.pdf>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Prof. dr. J.A. Silk
>> Professor in the study of Buddhism
>> Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
>> Herta Mohr building 2.142
>> Witte Singel 27A
>> 2311 BG Leiden
>> The Netherlands
>>
>> Guest Professor, PI of ERC-Project BEST
>> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
>> Department für Asienstudien, Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
>> Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
>> 80539 München
>> Deutschland
>>
>> website: www.OpenPhilology.eu
>> copies of my publications may be found at
>> https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk
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