Clay Sanskrit Library

In 1951, he was offered a full scholarship by the Queen’s College, Oxford, where he achieved a First-class degree in Sanskrit, Old Persian and Avestan.

On leaving Oxford, Clay joined Vickers da Costa, a stockbroking firm based in the City of London.

He shared his ambitions for the CSL with Richard Gombrich (also an alumnus of St Paul’s School, London), who was the Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University from 1976 to 2004.

[3] In 2009, the CSL ended its initial project[5][2] and in 2010 Pollock joined the Murty Classical Library of India,[6] which seeks to publish works in Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages.

[10] In 2016, in conjunction with NYU Press, JJC launched the Digital Clay Sanskrit Library (eCSL) for ebook platforms: Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iBooks, Google Play and KOBO.

CSL and The Queen's College, Oxford is funding the John P Clay Graduate Scholarship in Manuscript and Text Cultures: Sanskrit.