[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Chandra Shum Shere catalogue: searchable online

[Dominik Wujastyk]

I am excited to share this announcement by Suhas Mahesh.  I am also adding
a link to the front page of the INDOLOGY <http://indology.info> website,
for easy reference.


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From: Suhas Mahesh <suhas.msh at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2026 at 05:49
Subject: Chandra Shum Shere catalogue: searchable online

[...]

I’ve made a searchable version of the handwritten Chandra Shum Shere
catalogue at Oxford, with linked folio images and subject filters (~7000
MSS in all):

https://suhasmahesh.com/oxford-css-manuscripts/

Would you mind sharing this on Indology list?

The GPT-6 Astra AI model performed the bulk of the image analysis. Although
caution about AI in general is warranted, current AI models are extremely
reliable at recognizing handwritten Roman text. I spent significant compute
resources verifying the results by pitting various models against each
other. The original images are linked on the website for each entry. I've
run spot checks on a hundred entries, and found the results accurate enough
to trust.

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Best,
Suhas
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