The South Asian collection
Last update: 10-08-2011 02:09 PMBangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
The South Asian collection consists of manuscripts (including palm-leaves), printed books (monographs and journals), microfilms and AV-materials, and a small collection of objects related to the art of the South Asian book.
Search for printed books in the online catalogue REX. Use Latin letters in transcription.
The reading room on floor E Vest (LÆEV) contain a reference collection with books in Oriental and Western languages.
This reference collection can be located in REX .
Manuscripts may only be used in the centre, where the catalogue is located. In the old Latin catalogue: Codices Orientales Bibliothecæ Regiæ Havniensis (published by Westergaard & Mehren, 1846-1857) the Indian manuscripts can be located in vol. 1, pp. 1-110 and Urdu in vol. 3, pp.. 73-75. Access to a PDF-version for print, clic here (vol. 1) and here for vol. 3 (go to pdf pp. 77-78).
New manuscripts catalogue: Catalogue of Ceylonese manuscripts
The collection has Indo-European languages (fx Sanskrit and Hindi) and Dravidian languages (e.g. Tamil and Malayalam).
EXTERNAL LINKS
- School of Oriental and African Studies. Centre of South Asian Studies
- The British Library
- Südasien-Institut der Universität Heidelberg
- Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. Fachinformationsführer zu süd- und südostasiatischen Sprachen und Kulturen
Also links to other web-sites in the areas - GRETIL - Goettingen register of electronic texts in Indian languages
- Large collection of searchable transcribed critical editions of various texts in Indo-European languages including numerous Indo-Iranian languages
- Small collection of searchable critical editions of kavya-texts in Sanskrit
- Very large collection of searchable classical texts in Devanagari and various transcribed formats
- Comprehensive collection of links to on-line texts not found on the above mentioned website
- Large collection of searchable transcribed classical texts in Sanskrit and a frequently updated and ever expanding collection of links to on-line texts
- National Mission for Manuscripts, page on Indian manuscripts
- Indian homepage with Indian dance Bharata Natyam
- The critical Pali dictionary pali.hum.ku.dk
