Data Notes

Pāṇḍitya uses a static snapshot of the Pandit database from 2025-06-26. This export had 69,779 rows (= entities) and 163 columns (= fields). Only a subset of this is used:

• 14 fields (columns): Content type, ID, Title, Aka, Social identifiers, Author (person IDs), Authors (person), Attributed author (person ID), Attributed author (person), Discipline, Commentary on (work ID), Commentary on (work), Highest Year, Lowest Year
• 2 out of 9 Content types (= row types): Person, Work
  • This reduces the number of rows to 18,539
  • Some minor cleaning reduced this number further to 18,285
  • Persons without associated Works were then removed

Below are some summary statistics on the overall network and on sub-communities:

• Total entities: 16,939 (13,094 works, 3,845 authors)
• Total relationships: 13,890 (9,421 author → work, 4,469 work → work)

Community Type	Count	Total Entities
Isolated nodes (no connections)	3,233	3,233
Extra-small communities (2–4 entities)	1,638	3,667
Small communities (5–9 entities)	93	581
Medium communities (10–25 entities)	23	336
Second-largest community	1	73
Central community	1	9,049
Total	4,989	16,939

In addition, e-text links were sourced in a mostly manual collation process, last updated 2025-06-27. See the SETI page for more info.