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@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@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@list.indology.info> on behalf of INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply-To: Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, July 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
To: "Michaels, Prof. Dr. Axel" <michaels@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de>
Cc: INDOLOGY <indology@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@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.

 

Best,

Axel / Michaels

 

From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of "indology@list.indology.info" <indology@list.indology.info>
Reply to: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 18. July 2025 at 00:33
To: Tyler Neill <tyler.g.neill@gmail.com>
Cc: "indology@list.indology.info" <indology@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:

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:

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:

Best wishes,

Dominik


 

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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

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