Welcome to DHIPR, a datebase service provided by the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (ISTB) of the University of Vienna. The database, which is in its initial stages, provides information regarding Indian philosophy as it is represented in academic literature published since 1995. Some data for literature prior to 1995 has been included.
For details concerning the content of the database click About.

Starting DHIPR

Before proceeding to search, you will need to download a unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS, which contains the characters with diacritics necessary for using DHIPR. For key combinations, see Conventions.
Select Search to search for publications, editions of primary texts, names of authors, terms or keywords.
We encourage contributions from external users. To arrange to input data, please email one of the persons listed under Contact.
Click on Help for page-specific information.

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The ISTB invites interested scholars to contribute data to DHIPR.

For permission to input, please contact Karin Preisendanz.

For technical matters, contact Himal Trikha.

For suggestions and questions, contact Irene Wicher

For information on the database system used for DHIPR and for related systems, contact Martin Hitz.

The database for the 'Documentation of the History of Indian Philosophies and Religions' (DHIPR) provided by the ISTB continues but surpasses in scope and detail the earlier keywording project of the previous Institute for Indology (see History). The documentation, in contrast to other comparable on-line resources which provide only bibliographical details and standardized subject headings, offers the user both bibliographic and highly differentiated content-related information. The content-related information is derived directly from the specific scholarly publications, i.e., the monographs, articles and so forth, that have been evaluated for input. This component of the database is not and does not aim to be encyclopaedic, inasmuch as it has been conceived to include and reflect the particular views and conclusions of the authors of the individual publications. Some of the content-related information is therefore of a subjective nature, and may not represent general scholarly consensus or concord with the data presented in standard handbooks. The advantage of the approach is that the entire range of scholarly opinion and discourse can be represented on-line - in the context of scholarly consideration and evaluation and without the unnecessary repetition of generally accessible data.

The database also includes publications on the philosophies and religions of modern South Asia, as well as those which approach the two main areas from anthropological and sociological points of view.

The ISTB invites interested scholars to contribute data to DHIPR. Please see Contact.

The participants in the project are: Anne MacDonald, Karin Preisendanz, Himal Trikha, Irene Wicher.

The technical framework of the database was created by Jürgen Wolf in the context of his M.A. thesis; he was supervised by Martin Hitz, Professor at the Department of Informatics-Systems, Klagenfurt University. Jürgen Wolf, then a student of Business Informatics, School of Business Economics and Informatics, University of Vienna, worked in close cooperation with Himal Trikha (ISTB), whose initial involvement in the project was aided by a grant from the Vienna Institution of Higher Education Jubilee Foundation (Wiener Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung). Anne MacDonald and Irene Wicher, both of ISTB, performed functionality checks and prepared the help texts.

Among the persons involved in conceiving the database under various aspects were: Birgit Kellner, Roque Mesquita, Chlodwig Werba and others.

The database for the ''Documentation of the History of Indian Philosophies and Religions'' (DHIPR) provided by the ISTB continues, refines and expands the keywording project of the University's previous Institute for Indology. The project started in the 1960s, when it was decided that new publications received by the Institute for Indology's library which were relevant to the Institute's research foci should be keyworded as to their contents. The keywords and bibliographical data were typed by the staff of the Institute onto index cards, which were then ordered alongside the library's author catalogue to make them available to all library users. The cards provided ongoing comprehensive documentation of all new releases in the areas of Indian philosophies and religions, both of the predominantly Sanskrit primary literature and of the secondary literature in various European languages. The keywording of articles in journals and anthologies was discontinued in 1995. The task of electronically keywording the monographs according to the less detailed OPAC standard was assumed by the Librarian of the University Library's branch for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies.

The keyword card collection was, and remains, an invaluable supplement to the library's author catalogue, especially in the area of journals and commemorative volumes, etc., with respect to which it has become increasingly difficult for individual scholars to maintain an overview. In 1999, when the members of the Institute, aware of the worth of the collection and its benefit to the scholarly community, decided that the keywording should be resumed, Himal Trikha, a doctoral student at the Institute, proposed that a database be created for this purpose. His suggestion was welcomed and supported by Karin Preisendanz, the Institute's new Chair for Indology. Over the next months, she and the other members of the Institute conceived and evolved a design for the new documentation project, and the following year Martin Hitz, Professor in the Department of Informatics-Systems at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, and Jürgen Wolf, then a student in the School of Business Economics and Informatics at the University of Vienna, kindly agreed to design a database for the project. Data entry and functionality checks commenced in the summer of 2002.

Key assignment for characters with diacritics
Press control first and then the respective key - not both keys at the same time!

a overstroke (long a): ctrl + a

i overstroke (long i): ctrl + i

u overstroke (long u): ctrl + u

r underdot (syllabic r): ctrl +

l underdot (syllabic l): ctrl + l

t underdot (retroflexl t): ctrl + t

d underdot (retroflex d): ctrl + d

n overdot (guttural n): ctrl + g

n tilda (palatal n): ctrl + j

n underdot (retroflex n): ctrl + n

m underdot (anusvâra): ctrl + m

s accent acute (palatal s): ctrl + z

s underdot (retroflex s): ctrl + s

h underdot (visarga): ctrl + h

For corresponding capital letters use the shift key in addition.

Key assignment help: ctrl + ?

The key assignment corresponds to that of the Kyôto-Harvard convention.
For Tibetan, use the Wylie transliteration system.

When using Search please notice that out-of-date transliteration systems for transliterating Sanskrit words or words in other Asian languages which involve special diacritics or typographical features have been adjusted to the present-day conventions. Diacritic signs used in other languages, such as accents, cedille, tilda, etc., may or may not have been used by the person who entered the data. Thus, if your search finds no results, try variant spellings.