The foundation for our work on this site is a digital
corpus of all published Gāndhārī texts. We started
jointly compiling this corpus in 2002, and brought
coverage to completion in 2014 (see
Baums & Glass 2013
for a brief history of our work, as well as our
Blog).
Going forward, we continue to keep our corpus updated
as new material is discovered and published, add
improved documentation to each text, and carry out a
comprehensive linguistic analysis of the full range of
Gāndhārī texts that we assembled. Especially the
Gāndhārī manuscripts discovered in the last twenty
years (most of which remain unpublished) are making
significant contributions to the corpus, but also new
inscriptions and coins from Gandhāra and wooden
documents from Central Asia continue to be found.
Sources: Hultzsch 1925, British Library,
British Library, Stefan Baums.
The current numbers of items and word tokens in our
corpus are as follows:
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