# Pramāṇa

> Pramāṇa is an open library of the primary sources of the Indian subcontinent: texts in their original languages (Sanskrit, Pāli, Prakrit, Tamil and others) with their recensions, commentaries and translations linked verse by verse, inscriptions, coins, archaeological sites and museum objects, what other civilisations wrote about India, and classic studies. It holds 106,833 works catalogued, 48,357 with their text, 13,683,955 passages, 441,600,958 words, 29,293 translations, 9,416 commentaries.

Pramāṇa (also written Pramana) is at https://indike.org/pramana/. It is free to read and to query. Texts come from GRETIL, SARIT, the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, SuttaCentral, CBETA, 84000, Wikisource, the Internet Archive's scans (read by OCR) and many other projects, each credited with its edition and licence on the text's page. Machine translations are marked as such.

Paths: every document has a permanent path that is its URL — `in.veda.samhita.rg` (Ṛgveda), `in.veda.samhita.rg.1.1.1` (its first verse), `in.veda.samhita.rg!sayana` (Sāyaṇa's commentary), `in.veda.samhita.rg~en-griffith` (Griffith's translation), `*` a recension. Append `?format=md` to any page URL for Markdown.

## Sections

- [Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in): Texts of the Indian world: Veda, philosophy, epics, poetry, the sciences, the Buddhist and Jain canons, the regional literatures, and the records of the Islamic period and after. (36,991 records, 13,575 with text)
- [Physical](https://indike.org/pramana/inp): Sites and excavations, monuments, inscriptions, coins and seals, museum artefacts, the archaeological reports and the periods that date them. (67,863 records, 34,216 with text)
- [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf): What other civilisations wrote about India, from cuneiform tablets to Greek, Latin, Chinese, Tibetan and Arabic authors. (2,065 records, 624 with text)
- [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins): Classic secondary sources, linked to the passages they cite.

## Docs

- [About Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/about?format=md): what it holds (live numbers), how it relates to GRETIL, SARIT, DCS, the NCC and the manuscript catalogues, sources and licences, how to cite
- [API](https://indike.org/pramana/api/docs): OpenAPI documentation of the JSON API
- [Read a page as JSON](https://indike.org/pramana/api/page/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.1.1): `/api/page/{path}` — text, translations, commentaries, other recensions of any passage
- [Cite](https://indike.org/pramana/api/cite/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.1.1): `/api/cite/{path}` — a citation for any passage
- [Statistics](https://indike.org/pramana/api/stats): live counts

## How to cite

Pramāṇa: a library of Indian primary sources. indike.org. https://indike.org/pramana/ — with the path of the passage, e.g. https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.1.1.