Transcription, collating, editing

The following are the main sources that have informed our theoretical stance towards the tasks of this project.

Critical references and resources

• Guidelines for Editors of Scholarly Editions, Modern Languages Association (2011). Includes an important annotated bibliography on digital methods in textual criticism.
• MLA Statement on the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age (2016)
  The above two sources locate the present project in the history and theory of digital scholarly editions as they have evolved since the 1980s.
• The Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines on the transcription of primary sources
  A critical adjunct to the above MLA sources, since the present digital edition rests on the transcription of manuscripts using the TEI guidelines. (A gentle introduction for Sanskritists.)
• SARIT Encoding Guidelines for the TEI encoding of Sanskrit texts by Liudmila Olalde, Andrew Ollett, and Patrick McAllister (short version). (Full version.)
• Reconstructing a Sanskrit text by Charles Li.
  Documentation of the alignment, collation and stemmatic methods in Saktumiva.

General interest

• The WP page on Textual Criticism (2020-10-09).
• The Leiden Conventions.
• Parvum Lexicon Stemmatologicum. A Brief Lexicon of Stemmatology by Philipp Roelli and Caroline Macé.
• The European Society for Textual Scholarship.
• The Digital Orientalist (Indian section edited by Adrian Plau).
• DHARMA Encoding Guide for Diplomatic Editions by Dániel Balogh and Arlo Griffiths.
  Covers some of the same ground as the SARIT Encoding Guidelines above. Extremely detailed and aimed more at epigraphical sources than manuscripts.