Pramāṇa launches: 105k texts, 414M words of Indian primary sources, free to search
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-20
- Pramāṇa (indike.org/pramana) bills itself as the most comprehensive database of Indian primary sources ever created, covering texts (recensions, commentaries, commentaries on commentaries), inscriptions, coin types, foreign accounts of India, and digitized archaeology corpora.
- Scale: 105k texts, 13M passages, 414M words across 93 languages, organized from Vedic literature to the six darśanas; the epigraphy section indexes Epigraphia Indica, South Indian Inscriptions and other major series with scans.
- It also ships a St.hāna site database (21k archaeological sites with periods, excavations and finds) with map browsing, plus an API and multilingual search.
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