Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel Running time:  2001 – 2003     Project description:    Through targeted acquisition activities, the ULB Halle was able to acquire an extensive stock of Sanskrit texts in the years from 1993 to 2000. Approximately 2,000 titles of this collection have not yet been recorded in the electronic union catalogues of Germany. Among the acquired works were a large number of rare editions from the first decades of the 20th century, which could no longer or only with great difficulty be obtained second-hand. However, it was possible to acquire them through a distributor, sourcing them from the stocks of various Chowkhamba publishers in Varanasi, who specialised in Sanskrit literature. In regard to the high percentage of unique holdings, a rapid cataloguing of the titles was aspired, which was realised in between 2001 and 2003 by support from the DFG.