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.
Beside the stone record stand the manuscript shelves: Balinese Wikisource’s palm-leaf lontars, transcribed manuscript-direct in Balinese script (usada healing texts, geguritan verse, the Basa Kawi works); the Jawi-script Malay manuscripts of the Leiden and British Library collections (the Hikayat Aceh, the Sejarah Melayu); and the Thai Collected Chronicles (Prachum Phongsawadan) in their pre-1930 printings, Buddhist-era years converted.
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The shelves
A source wears every desk it serves — these twelve 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 7 November 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ban-wikisource |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,252 docs / 21,491 passages |
dharma-campa |
texts | attribution | wired · auto | 122 docs / 2,740 passages |
dharma-javanese-texts |
texts | attribution | wired · auto | 92 docs / 46,518 passages |
dharma-khmer |
texts | attribution | wired · auto | 1,326 docs / 54,635 passages |
dharma-nusantara |
texts | attribution | wired · auto | 291 docs / 5,898 passages |
dharma-pyu |
texts | attribution | wired · auto | 145 docs / 629 passages |
jv-wikisource |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 36 docs / 2,855 passages |
ms-wikisource |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 64 docs / 5,081 passages |
obi-burmese |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1,121 docs / 25,238 passages |
ojw |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 3,632 entries |
su-wikisource |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 78 docs / 8,351 passages |
th-wikisource |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 92 docs / 11,006 passages |
Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 7 November 2026): kaw 3,633 · obr 1,121 · okz-Latn 874 · kaw-Bali 701 · ban-Bali 542 · san-Latn 494 · kaw-Latn 271 · pyx-Latn 124 · tha 92 · ocm-Latn 75 … and 16 more (nabu axis sea lists all).
The desk’s instruments
No desk-specific instruments curated yet — the generic surfaces above apply.
Working the sea desk
The generic desk 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 30 research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.