In Indological literature there's the convention of having two separate bibliographies: One for secondary literature, which can be handled more or less straightforward by existing types and fields already present in biblatex(-chicago), and a primary literature one, for which in a previous publication project I had to resort to ugly hacks like abusing the title field for the name of the work and, optionally, its author, then hardcoding all the actual bibliographical information into the note field. How ugly was that, as in the following, which is roughly how I used to do it:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[authordate,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{pri.bib}
@misc{Kuṭṭanīmata,
title = {Kuṭṭanīmata \emph {of Dāmodaragupta}},
note = {\textit{Dāmodaraguptaviracitaṃ Kuṭṭanīmatam: The Bawd’s Counsel, Being an Eighth-century Verse Novel in Sanskrit by Dāmodaragupta, Newly Edited and Translated into English}, edited and translated by Csaba Dezső and Dominic Goodall. Groningen Oriental Studies 23. Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2012},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{sec.bib}
@book{DezsoGoodall2012,
title = {Dāmodaraguptaviracitaṃ Kuṭṭanīmatam},
subtitle = {The Bawd’s Counsel, Being an Eighth-century Verse Novel in Sanskrit by Dāmodaragupta, Newly Edited and Translated into English},
editor = {Csaba Dezső and Dominic Goodall},
translator = {Csaba Dezső and Dominic Goodall},
series = {Groningen Oriental Studies},
number = {23},
location = {Groningen},
publisher = {Egbert Forsten},
year = {2012},
}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{biber.conf}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
<sourcemap>
<maps datatype="bibtex" bmap_overwrite="1">
<map>
<per_datasource>pri.bib</per_datasource>
<map_step map_field_set="KEYWORDS" map_field_value="pri"/>
</map>
<map>
<per_datasource>sec.bib</per_datasource>
<map_step map_field_set="KEYWORDS" map_field_value="sec"/>
</map>
</maps>
</sourcemap>
</config>
\end{filecontents*}
\addbibresource{pri.bib}
\addbibresource{sec.bib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\printbibliography[title=Primary Sources, keyword=pri,heading=subbibliography]
\printbibliography[title=Secondary Sources, keyword=sec,heading=subbibliography]
\end{document}
For a new project I am now thinking to do it properly, but am not quite sure how to go about it. Maybe I could create new types, say @pri-book, for which I guess I'd have to copy the definition of @book from chicago-authordate.bbx, and extend it by two extra fields, e.g. pri-title, containing the Sanskrit title of the work, and the optional pri-author, which of course would also need to be defined, and change the order of fields for the year to be output at the end of the entry?
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Update
Here's a version that keeps the
authorandtitleseparate. It copes with different languages OK. I've also kept your source map and used the source map to set thesortkeytotitleso that entries are sorted by title rather than author. Therelatedoptions={dataonly,useditor=false,usetranslator=false}ensures that the related entry does not appear in the bibliography unless explicitly cited and the editor and translator appear after the title.It's not super clever, but is a reasonably place to start.
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This looks like a good candidate for the
relatedfeature ofbiblatex. You can set theentrysubtypefield toclassicalfor your primary source to get the output you want without really doing anything clever.Ideally you'd want to separate
authorandtitleof your Kuṭṭanīmata entry, but if you don't want to modify the drivers, you could leave everything in thetitlefield as you have now.How's this?