Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by prox on Sunday September 26, 2021 @05:38PM
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Sanskrit in the Indian subcontinent has a long history, and not many are familiar with them. Lots of other scripts and languages in East Asia are relatively unknown (for example from Indonesia)
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Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by wizard-beta on Sunday September 26, 2021 @05:53PM
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Even though people are not so familiar with classical Indian civilization, they were very highly literate and the extant corpus is enormous. It easily rivals or exceeds classical Greek and Latin. I have heard that the Mahabharata is 10 times longer than the Iliad/Odyssey.
Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by prox on Sunday September 26, 2021 @06:00PM
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On that line of thought, probably it’s Tibetan and buddhism that must have an extensive library. Most of these works have survived for a very long time.
Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by dr_dshiv on Sunday September 26, 2021 @06:32PM
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There are thousands of lost palm leaf books, in Sanskrit and other South Asian languages, rotting away.
There is simply no money to support the scholarship that would preserve these works. It's incredibly sad.
Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by prox on Sunday September 26, 2021 @07:13PM
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Do you know any libraries that need financial support for archiving this body of work?
Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by dr_dshiv on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:01AM
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I know of research institutes, yes.
Sanskrit is widely taught in younger years. Funding needs to go to bright PhD students to make the field again. It's extremely conservative and territorial after so many years of hardship.
Re:Are there more surviving ancient writings in Greek or Latin?
by Goety on Sunday September 26, 2021 @11:53PM
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I hope they get digitized before they all fall apart. Maybe they should contact google.