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Corpus Search

The Corpus Search allows to search for terms or passages in the corpus of the Sanskrit literature.

At the moment the corpus search uses the Buddhanexus Sanskrit Corpus as a database.

note

While the corpus-search works on mobile, usage on desktop is recommended.

Accessing the Corpus search interface​

There are three ways to access the feature:

  1. Select "Corpus Search on the navbar";
  2. Click on the Text Search Icon on the header;
  3. Press ctrl + s (or cmd + s on mac);
CorpusSearch

Basic Usage​

Write a term or passage in the search bar to press search for searching.

  • you can search with any transliteration scheme;
  • queries with no diacritics are accepted and welcomed;
  • short queries work better, if you have no results, try shortening the query;
  • clicking on Filter, it's possible to filter by author, book title and collection;
  • press search to start searching!
warning

Result highlighting is only supported for IAST and no diacritics.

Search Mode​

There are two main search modes: Individual segments and Grouped by Book. By default Grouped by Book is selected.

Grouped by Book groups results by books, and it shows the number of match in each book. By clicking on the book title it is possible to look at the individual passages.

Individual segments shows each matched segment directly.

In the images are shown the result for the query 'alayavijnana'.

GroupedByBook

Accessing the results, scrollbar ticks​

Clicking on the Book or Link icon in the matched results opens the book.

In the case of the Link Icon it scrolls directly to the matched passage.

On the scrollbar are automatically added scrollbar ticks indicating where the matches are in the text. You can click on the marks to directly scroll on the passages.

At the moment there is a little bug causing the matched segment(s) to not be clickable for text analysis. The rest of the text can be clicked to directly access text analysis.

*In the image are shown the marks for the query 'alayavijnana' on the Yogācārabhūmi.

ScrollbarMarks