Bibliotheca Indica

Bibliotheca Indica

Bibliotheca Indica is a collection of works belonging to or treating of Oriental literatures and contains original text editions as well as translations into English, and also bibliographies, dictionaries, grammars, and studies by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. Many of the books are available for digital downloads.[1]

History

The publication was started in 1849, and consists of an Old and a New Series. The New Series was begun in 1860, and is still running. The issues in the series consisted originally of fascicles of 96 or 100 pages print, though occasionally numbers were issued of double, triple or larger bulk, and in a few cases even entire works were published under a single issue number. Of late years the single issues are made as much as possible to constitute complete volumes. Several different works are always simultaneously in progress. Each issue bears a consecutive issue number.

The Old Series consists of 265 issues; in the New Series, till January 1st, 1939, inclusive, 1,519 issues had been published. These 1,784 issues represent 254 different works; these works again represent the following literatures: Sanskrit, Prakrit. Rājasthāni, Kāshmiri, Hindi. Tibetan. Arabic, Persian. A few works, though incomplete, have been discontinued. Old and some new series issues were printed at the Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta and published by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Size

The standard sizes of the Bibliotheca Indica are three:

References

  1. ↑ "Bibliotheca Indica Series". Sanskrit Ebooks. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
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