THE Bibliotheca Indica is a collection of works belonging to or treating of Oriental literatures and contains original text-editions, as well as translations into English, and also biblio­graphies and studies.

The publication was started in 1849, and consists of an Old and a New Series. The New Series was begun in 1860, and is still running.

As a rule the issues in the series consist of fascicles of 96 or 100 pages print, though occasionally numbers are issued of double, triple or larger bulk, and in a few cases even entire works have been published under a single issue number. Several different works are always simultaneously in progress. Each issue bears a consecutive issue number. The Old Series consists of 265 issues; in the New Series, till January 1st, 1925, inclusive, 1477 issues have been published. These 1742 issues represent 240 different works; these works again represent the following literatures:—

Sanskrit, Prakrit.
Rājasthānī, Kāshmīrī, Hindī.
Tibetan.
Arabic, Persian.

Several works published are partly or wholly sold out, others are still incomplete and in progress. A few works, though incomplete, have been discontinued.

Various price lists and notices concerning the Bibliotheca Indica are available and may be had on application. Other lists are in preparation. Revised lists are published from time to time.

The standard sizes of the Bibliotheca Indica are three:—

Demy (or small) octavo.
Royal (or large) octavo.
Quarto.

The prices of the Bibliotheca Indica as revised in 1923 are based (with some exceptions) on the following scale per unit of 96 or 100 pages in a fascicle as the case may be:—