the late David Pingree told me something similar, so there may be something more specific in his writings.  He did mention that due curatorial problems, many of the mss mentioned in the late 19th century-early 20th century ms catalogues are no more.  <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Herman Tull <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hermantull@gmail.com" target="_blank">hermantull@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Richard Gombrich writes (in his Boden inaugural, &quot;In Being Sanskritic&quot;): &quot;Surviving Sanskrit literature is many times as large as Latin and Greek literature together. There may be as many as two million manuscripts extant...&quot;<div>

<br></div><div>Is this a &quot;standard&quot; figure; does anyone have any other sources that support this figure? (Or, larger or smaller figures.)</div><div><br></div><div>Along with this question, is there an estimate of the number of distinct texts (not just mss.) composed in Sanskrit?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Herman<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Herman Tull<br>Princeton, NJ <br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>James Hartzell, PhD<br>Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)<br>The University of Trento, Italy