Sea — The Southeast Asianist
The Southeast Asianist — the Indic cosmopolis at its eastern edge: Sanskrit charters beside the vernaculars they seeded.
Epigraphy-first, opening on the DHARMA corpora: the Old Khmer inscriptions (the Cœdès K-numbers), the Campā corpus, the Nusantara charters (Old Malay, Old Javanese, Old Sundanese), the Pyu corpus, and the Bagan Old Burmese inscriptions — with the kakawin critical editions as the literary wing and the Old Javanese Wordnet as its glossary, joining as their packets land.
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The shelves
A source wears every desk it serves — these seven answer this desk. Holdings are read live from the catalog and dated; a shelf with nothing synced yet says so.
| Source | Holds | License | Status | Holdings (as of 19 September 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
dharma-khmer |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,219 docs / 50,165 passages |
dharma-campa |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 121 docs / 2,728 passages |
dharma-nusantara |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 291 docs / 5,893 passages |
dharma-pyu |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 145 docs / 629 passages |
obi-burmese |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,121 docs / 25,238 passages |
dharma-javanese-texts |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 88 docs / 46,108 passages |
ojw |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 3,632 entries |
Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 19 September 2026): kaw 3,632 · obr 1,121 · okz-Latn 845 · san-Latn 466 · kaw-Latn 266 · pyx-Latn 124 · ocm-Latn 74 · osn-Latn 27 · khm-Latn 23 · omy-Latn 20 … and 4 more (nabu axis sea lists all).
The desk’s instruments
No axis-specific instruments curated yet — the generic surfaces above apply.
Working the sea desk
The generic axis surfaces — every desk answers to these, in working order (enable once, sync, then query):
nabu enable sea # first time: put this desk's shelves in this box's profile
nabu sync sea # fetch/refresh the desk's enabled members
nabu list --axis sea # the shelf census, this desk only
nabu axis sea # the desk card: members, holdings, gold coverage
nabu search WORD --axis sea # a query scoped to this desk's shelves
One of the twenty-five research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.