PANDIT

Pandit is a digital hu man i ties project with a unique and ambitious task: to create a database for the vast world of South Asian letters. The name stands for the Sanskrit title of a virtuoso scholar with full mastery of tra di tional knowledge systems, but as an acronym it also expresses the project's main objective: the creation of a Proso po graph i cal Database of Indic Texts. In brief, Pandit seeks to store, curate, and share reliable data on works, people, places, in sti tu tions, and man u scripts from premodern South Asia, in addition to relevant secondary sources, and to do so across period, language, dis ci pline, and subject matter. It is designed as an in ter ac tive web-based repos i tory that scholars of every South Asian specialty and interest can con tribute to and as a basic tool on which they will routinely come to rely.