I am excited to share this announcement by Suhas Mahesh.  I am also adding a link to the front page of the INDOLOGY website, for easy reference.


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

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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