Sunday, May 04, 2008
The blogger.com engine now allows "Blog in your native Indic script, Convert English characters to Indic script as you type! This may increase the number of sites that use Devanagari/Sanskrit display.
Daniel Salas has been involved with Sanskrit Decipherment of the Indus Valley Script. See various links of Daniel's bold discoveries with diagrams and graphs for Metal and Writing in the Bronze Age Indus Valley; 'Metal' Teacher of the Planets; Guru Jyotis; MahAdeva "City of Buddha," Evolution from the Indus Script; Sumerian to Indus translitation; and pages on Vira-bhadra, Gandharva.
Chetan Pande has created Sanskrit utilities that cover Transliterator to generate display in Devanagari using multiple transliteration schemes (Itrans, Kyoto, and single key map), an interface to Monier William's Sanskrit Dictionary, a Sandhi engine that joins two words and displays them in Devanagari, and a Pratyahara-Decoder based on the Shiva sutra of Panini. The Java based sandhi project software is available for download. An article "Introduction to the Technique of Paninian Grammar" supplements the utilities. The dictionary allows Copy to ClipBoard function for the Devanagari/eLatin Output and makes it more User-Friendly.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Visit Sanskrit Literature blog site at http://venetiaansell.wordpress.com and participate. The site objective is "Bringing Sanskrit literature to a wider global audience." The site is maintained by Venetia Ansel, "hoping to start a Sanskrit literature forum which would generate fresh interest in Sanskrit literature around the world by promoting texts, translations, literary criticism and artistic interpretations," and to "bring together Sanskritists, literature fans, readers and audiences." The site is grouped in different categories such as art, books, film and television, theatre and dance, and verses, quotes, excerpts with links to other relevant blogs, Sanskrit resources and organizations. Read the motivation behind the site and get involved in Sanskrit studies.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Ramayana Sites in Sri Lanka – Visit places of Lankapura such as Ashok Vatika, Sita Kotuwa and Seetha Eliya. Watch a You-tube video on the places visited under Ramayana tours. The site is built by Dream vacations for travel promotion to Sri Lanka.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Visit BhashaIndia.com, a community site, sponsored by Microsoft, related to Languages of India for their technological enhancement and world-wide outreach. It provides resources for end-users as well as developers. Resources include IMEs in different scripts (Hindi Tamil Kannada Gujarati Marathi Telugu Bengali Malayalam Punjabi Konkani Oriya Sanskrit Nepali), Tri-Lingual Dictionary, Keyboard Layout Creator, sample interviews in regional languages and some minor texts.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
"To London, to Learn Sanskrit", Hindustan Times news item by Aditya Ghosh. Also included is a short interview of Dr. Warwick Jessup, Sanskrit teacher, by Sumana Ramanan, "An exquisitely refined language." St. James Independent School of London, founded in 1975 by Leon Maclaren, teaches Sanskrit as a required language. Have children attending the school benefited by learning Sanskrit?
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
The Tamil classic, Thirukkural (Sacred Couplets), attributed to Thiruvalluvar(2nd or 3rd century A.D.) has been translated into many major languages of the world. A project is underway by N.V.K. Ashraf at http://www.geocities.com/nvkashraf to gather, decode, and present it in many languages. The available translations are in Gujarati, Burmese, Dutch, Hindi, Chinese, English, Kannada, Fiji, Finnish, Konkani, Japanese, French, Malayalam, Korean, German, Marathi, Malay, Hungarian, Oriya, Sinhalese, Italian, Punjabi, Urdu, Latin, Rajasthani, Norwegian, Sanskrit, Polish, Saurashtra, Russian, Tamil, Spanish, Telugu, and Swedish. Many of these are already uploaded on the site.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Read the ongoing translation of yogavAsiShTha online at google newsgroup yoga-vasishtha. It is being translated by Jiva Das, a long term yoga practitioner. He warns in his preface that the "central teaching of this Masterpiece of Philosophical Literature has mainly this to say: 'This Universe in which you take so much stock,--it never was, it is not now, and it will never be. And if you are ripe for such lunacy, then you should settle down for a seven-year journey." Some of the difficult Sanskrit words are explained in a separate file. Author's favorite verse from Yogavasishtha is
santoShaH paramo lAbhaH satsa~NgaH paramA gatiH |
vichAraH paramaM j~nAnaM shamo hi paramaM sukham ||
सन्तोषः परमो लाभः सत्सङ्गः परमा गतिः ।
विचारः परमं ज्ञानं शमो हि परमं सुखम् ॥
Contentment is the highest gain, Good Company the highest course, Enquiry the highest wisdom, and Peace the highest enjoyment.
santoShaH paramo lAbhaH satsa~NgaH paramA gatiH |
vichAraH paramaM j~nAnaM shamo hi paramaM sukham ||
सन्तोषः परमो लाभः सत्सङ्गः परमा गतिः ।
विचारः परमं ज्ञानं शमो हि परमं सुखम् ॥
Contentment is the highest gain, Good Company the highest course, Enquiry the highest wisdom, and Peace the highest enjoyment.
The Atma Jyoti Ashram is a spiritual center in Cedar Crest, New Mexico and is also dedicated to promoting and living the traditional Hindu monastic life in US. The well developed site provides many articles, audio/video clippings, high resolution photographs, well-written blogs by Swami Nirmalananda Giri and details of Om Yoga Meditation, and inspiring tips to spiritual seekers. It maintains a Sanskrit glossary which could be modified to promote correct pronunciation of Sanskrit words.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Streaming realplayer audio of Sanskrit stotras at spiritual-happiness.com and bhajans/devotional songs devotionalsinging.com chanted/sung by Kumuda, aka Sharon Janis.
Indolipi, a software for indologists and linguists developed by Elmar Kniprath at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. It is a multipurpose tool box dealing with Unicode Open Type fonts of various scripts.
Friday, December 21, 2007
The site http://veda.gigacities.net hosts many documents from Krishna Yajur Veda with vedic svaras with display in Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Grantha-Tamil scripts. It is built by K. Narasimha Rao .
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
The Kootastha Veda Shastra Poshaka Sangha in Bangalore is established to promote the study of the Vedas and the Shastras. The http://www.kootastha.org site has audio and video clips of suprabhatams, rudra, and suuktas for download. Most of the meanings are in Kannada.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Information on the Unicode for Vedic Sanskrit are available at TDIL (directly at Vedica.pdf), Omkarananda Ashram site, and separate Mailing list forum. Sites request participation and feedback.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Kalidas Festival in Ujjain. उज्जैन में कालिदास समारोह, स्वर्ण जयंती आयोजन | कालिदास समारोह का शुभारंभ भारतीय पंचांग के अनुसार कार्तिक मास की देवप्रबोधिनी एकादशी को होता है | कालिदास व्याख्यानमाला, 21 स्थानों पर संस्कृत संभाषण शिविरोंका आयोजन, सात दिन तक संस्कृत नाटकों और शास्त्रीय नृत्य का प्रदर्शन, संस्कृत वाद विवाद प्रतियोगिता |
Visit Kalidas Academy website http://kalidasaakademi.nic.in/ for project information.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Following the principle of NCERT "Learning Without Burden" one can find many well formatted text books for Classes I to XII at NCERT, National Council of Educational Research and Training Publication Division, Government of India, New Delhi; select textbooks. Sanskrit subject starts from sixth division; books entitled ruchirA, shreyasI, shemushI, bhAsvatI, shAshvatI. There are quite a few subjects presented here. The books are presented in browsable PDF formats.
Also read the news item.
Also read the news item.
Friday, November 02, 2007
विज्ञान और कंप्यूटर की समर्थ भाषा , श्री नारायण प्रसादजी का यह शोधपरक लेख संस्कृत की वैज्ञानिक विशिष्टताओं को ही नहीं प्रस्तुत करता है अपितु संस्कृत जैसी शुध्द वैज्ञानिक भाषा को लेकर तथाकथित बुध्दिजीवियों द्वारा किए जा रहे छद्म प्रचार की भी कलई खोलता है। hindimedia.in/
Response : The specific "plan" is to create technical terminology using Sanskrit words and grammar rules. Raghuvir had made such campaign. Many others have attempted to create and standardize such terminologies and there are some dictionaries.
Learning how to create the words is not the problem, it is relatively easy!
The problem is how to get the created words established as standard terminology.
Remember the word for density from school? density = ghanataa = daarDhya!
Thus, the use of the word determines their success. You don't expect scientists from different part of India talking and thinking in Sanskrit.
It is more efficient to just adopt the technical words from other languages as given and start using them. If some Sanskrit words become popular and catch on, so be it. (For instance the word guNa from Sanskrit grammar is used by Linguists, but they have enhanced its meaning. They also make words like "gunation"- process of the guna transformation!) Languages grow and intermingle, that is their beauty! (A)
Response : The specific "plan" is to create technical terminology using Sanskrit words and grammar rules. Raghuvir had made such campaign. Many others have attempted to create and standardize such terminologies and there are some dictionaries.
Learning how to create the words is not the problem, it is relatively easy!
The problem is how to get the created words established as standard terminology.
Remember the word for density from school? density = ghanataa = daarDhya!
Thus, the use of the word determines their success. You don't expect scientists from different part of India talking and thinking in Sanskrit.
It is more efficient to just adopt the technical words from other languages as given and start using them. If some Sanskrit words become popular and catch on, so be it. (For instance the word guNa from Sanskrit grammar is used by Linguists, but they have enhanced its meaning. They also make words like "gunation"- process of the guna transformation!) Languages grow and intermingle, that is their beauty! (A)
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A video clip depicting commendable decision and efforts by villagers and children of a village in Madhya Pradesh learning and speaking in Sanskrit.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sanskar TV Online has round the clock religious Hindu bhajans, kirtans, aartis, aradhanas and spiritual discourses by prominent, respected sants, and documentaries.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
अरविन्दाश्रमे संस्कृतम् aravindAshrame sa.nskR^itam relinked site http://sanskrit.sriaurobindoashram.org.in/ for various online display and audio of Sanskrit related publications from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. The publications can be ordered from SABDA, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry - 605 002, India. For Ordering Information http://www.sabda.in
सनातन सांस्कृतिक क्रांति के हिमालय, गीता प्रेस गोरखपुर के संस्थापक कर्मयोगी स्वर्गीय हनुमान प्रसाद पोद्दार, जियो तो ऐसे जियो, -- शिवानी जोशी at http://www.hindimedia.in/.
Friday, October 26, 2007
One of the aims of Dr. Ratnakar Narale is "producing at least one thousand Sanskrit Speaking People in Toronto, within next ten years." Dr. Narale has written several books to promote learning of Sanskrit, Hindi, and Gita. He has been appointed as a Principal of Hindu Institute of Learning (hilwebsite.com), providing awareness and quality education in Indian Languages, Arts, and Culture. The site's Sanskrit Language page has excerpts of some his books related to Sanskrit, learn to read-write and speak Sanskrit, Sanskrit literature. Many projects are forthcoming. Dr. Narale is also an established artist specializing in visual artwork.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Read Sanskrit journals/magazines online
Samskriti, yearly magazine from Samskrita Sangha, संस्कृतसङ्घः, Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
Sahridaya Vol 5, pages 383.
Sahridaya Vol 6, pages 317.
Sahridaya Vol 8, published in 1925, pages 435 with plays.
vishvavANi from UMD Samskritam, speaksanskrit.org.
apUrvavANI, published by Samskrita Bharati in Bay Area.
Surabharati, publication by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Samskriti, yearly magazine from Samskrita Sangha, संस्कृतसङ्घः, Indian Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
Sahridaya Vol 5, pages 383.
Sahridaya Vol 6, pages 317.
Sahridaya Vol 8, published in 1925, pages 435 with plays.
vishvavANi from UMD Samskritam, speaksanskrit.org.
apUrvavANI, published by Samskrita Bharati in Bay Area.
Surabharati, publication by Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
A good collection of popular Sanskrit devotional songs, dedicated to different gods and goddessess, is available at DEVOTIONAL SANSKRIT 01 eSnips Folder. The audio collection is built by Hari Narayana Bhat.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
A. V. Gopalakrishna Warrier from Kochi, Kerala has attempted to connect the ideas in Taittiriya Upanishad to the context of real life in this world at Taittiriya Upanishad - A Contemporary Interpretation
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sanskrit grammar, व्याकरणम्, blog site http://srinilakshmi.wordpress.com by Acharya Srinivasakrishnan is an easy guide to the Laghusiddhantakaumudi, लघुसिद्धांतकौमुदी, a primer on Paninian grammar. Classes are held with selected number of students using Skype.
There is also a set of 24 video clips of lectures delivered in Sanskrit on You Tube on the topic of Laghusiddhantakaumudi . These classes were conducted in Bangalore and videos are titled "Vyakarana Kakshya (Sanskrit Grammar Classes) by LSK."
There is also a set of 24 video clips of lectures delivered in Sanskrit on You Tube on the topic of Laghusiddhantakaumudi . These classes were conducted in Bangalore and videos are titled "Vyakarana Kakshya (Sanskrit Grammar Classes) by LSK."
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Samskrta-Subodhini: A Sanskrit Primer is a well researched book/tutorial by Professor Madhav M. Deshpande for learning Sanskrit. As a rare release and as a kind gift, Dr. Deshpande has recorded all the lessons and readings in audio format in his own voice, and have made them available free in downloadable MP3 format. The printed book is available from Center of South Asian Studies, University of Michigan and Amazon.com in hardcover/cloth and paperbook formats. Listen to Buddha's short biography in the first reading exercise : Buddha answers to a question "katham vayam duHkham tyajemeti?" "कथम् वयम् दुःखम् त्यजेमेति?" "ichChaa duHkhasya kAraNam |" "इच्छा दुःखस्य कारणम् ।"
The Gumpad is "yet another Indian language text composer" devloped by Pradyumna Revur. It is Windows based freeware/ software that can generate texts in several Indian scripts such as, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu (which are also standard for Itrans interface or bhomiyo). One can either type directly or read already prepared text and convert to see it in chosen script. It uses Unicode based fonts built-in to the operating system. A rare feature, not commonly found in other software that user can modify easily, is that it allows custom mapping of standard keypad letters to assigned script letters. This can be a useful feature for people used to typing in Itrans, Kyoto, or other phonetic based transliteration if a proper mapping is developed. There are plans to incorporate additional user friendly features.
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Puja.net has informational audio Podcasts under the topic of Vedic Mythology, Music, and Mantras and well presented multimedia audio and video resources. The podcasts include commentaries, stories, and relevant Sanskrit mantras and storas. The yagya group was formed by Sri Narasimha Bhattar and Benjamin Collins with assistance from Sri Seetharam Sastri. The site is built with commercial precision and outlook although the mission statements highlight that "Service, not profit, is the driving motive behind puja.net" and that "Our sponsorship of yagyas is intended not only to result in positive benefit for ourselves. Through our participation, we honor and preserve the Vedic traditions in India, and provide meaningful employment for highly qualified priests." It provides Jyotish consultations, blogs such as daily pUjA insights and yagyanotes, yearly pUjA schedule, and excellent pUjA videos/photos.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Google Indic Transliteration has some intelligence added to the data base; Sanskrit sanskrit samskrit saMskrit give the संस्कृत. The letter अ on the top left needs to depressed to get the Devanagari characters and can be used as a toggle between Devanagari and Roman. hindi/Hindi and hiMdi give different output, first with nasal n and next with anusvAra. A space after any word/letter prompts the conversion. Clicking on the word allows selection of multiple choices in addition to the editting feature. Marathi La and Ra are missing. It is a matter of time that this gets expanded in other Indic scripts. The unicode output is transferable to Word, notepad or such editors. A similar creative online tool built by an enthusiast, without the mega resources of Google, that also parallels the development, can be seen at bhomiyo.com where Typepad | X-literate Site | X-literate Text Tools are available in various language scripts.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
DiCrunch is a diacritic conversion utility that converts text between many common transliteration conventions and some Indic scripts. The common transliteration schemes are Balaram, CSX, Harvard-Kyoto, ITRANS, Shakti Mac, Unicode, and Velthuis with display in Devanagari, Bengali, and Oriya scripts.
Monday, August 06, 2007
A news article about Metro Plus Kochi : Spoken Sanskrit on the web. Klaus Glashoff, retired professor of Mathematics from Germany, has initiated the site http://www.spokensanskrit.de that provides "hypertext Sanskrit dictionary, English - Sanskrit, and Sanskrit - English for spoken Sanskrit" of common words.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
A webinterface to Hindi and Marathi dictionaries is available in Resource Center for Indian Language Technology Solutions at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (Mumbai). The searchable utilities include tutorials, wordnet group, most frequent words in Indian languages, Devanagari keyboard, Marathi and Hindi Corpora (try the word kushala) et cetera. The site is reviewed at Desh Dunia blogspot in Hindi.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Geetaganga at http://www.geetganga.org has some audio songs/prArthana in Sanskrit. In addition, it has "deshabhaktipar" category songs in many languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Oriya, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Marwari (Rajasthani), Kannada, Malayalam.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
The Sanskit Classics Literature site by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao giirvaani is recast in to another geocities' site termed desirajuhrao with clickable convenience to reach translations of Valmiki Ramayana, Gita Govindam, Ritusamhaaram, Kumarasambhavam, Raghuvamsham, Harivamsham (work in progress), Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya, Bhaarata saavitri, and Nataraja Symbolism.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Dr. Girish Nath Jha is guiding students in Computational Linguistics at the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. See some of their contributions such as Sanskrit verb-form generation, Sanskrit prose collection, Amarakosha searchable index, Sanskrit Subanta Recognizer and Analyzer and a few other projects, analyzers, indexers et cetera.
Discover an excellent collection of articles at http://www.infinityfoundation.com/. Some examples are
- Ten Misconceptions About India and Indic Traditions by Arvind Sharma
- Language Hegemony and the Construction of Identity by Rajiv Malhotra
- Eleven Objections to Sanskrit Literary Theory: A Rejoinderby Kapil Kapoor
- Indian Chemistry Through The Ages by D.P. Agrawal
- Worship of the Goddess in Hinduism by Sarah Caldwell
- Indic Academics Transcript of a discussion with Rajiv Malhotra : 24th JUNE, 2000
- Stereotyping Hinduism in American Education by Rajiv Malhotra
- Traditional Female Moral Exemplars in India by Madhu Kishwar
Sunday, June 24, 2007
A news item "Meet Pandit Hussain Shastri."
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Subscribe to the only illustrated Sanskrit monthly of Chandmama, Sanskrit in and many other languages. Visit http://www.chandamama.org for example and details.
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Participate in "The Vedic Maths Forum India," under the prestigious Govardhana Matha at Jagannatha Puri, www.vedicmathsindia.org and visit the Blog on Vedic Math http://vedicmathsindia.blogspot.com . There are numerous tutorials to learn Vedic Math, supposed to be the fastest Mental Math Method, on the website and one can even find the sources given of the Vedic Math sutras.
Recitation of Bhagvadgita audio by Swami Venkatesananda. There are audio lectures, video clips, and photographs of Swamiji. A highlight page containing a speech by Shri Swami Shivananda at Swami Venkatesananda's 34th birthday is accompanied by rare glimpses of spiritual celebrities such as Sivananda, Sai Baba, Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, Mahesh Yogi, Muktananda, Ananda-mayi Ma, Prabhupada, Kirpal Singh, Rajagopalachari, J. Krishnamurti et cetera.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
A well planned Tamil Language tutorial at http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/
Friday, June 08, 2007
Subscribe to "The Sanskrit daily Sudharma" from Mysore, India. Started in 1970 by Shri KN Varadaraja Iyengar 37 years ago is now continued by his son K. V. Sampath Kumar. Kindly help to keep this paper alive by subscribing to it.
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Experiment with and participate in the Sanskrit videoconferencing project at http://www.mywhatever.com/sanskrit/
Sunday, June 03, 2007
Sanskrit Studies in North American Universities and All Over The World : A list originally compiled by Dr Gudrun Buhnemann's website at University of Wisconsin-Madison and extended by Pankaj Jain at http://myweb.uiowa.edu/pjai/Sanskrit/ SanskritStudies. htm . News item in rediff. Send your additions and corrections to Pankaj Jain pankajaindia (at@) gmail.com
Sunday, May 20, 2007
http://sss.vn.ua is a Russian site that presents many religious topics. Dattatreya page http://dattatreya.ru/ developed by Vasyl Vernyhora with many of his own translations of major texts has many audio stotras. There are Datta puja and Shri Vidya puja in audio format. Also, on a subpage of the main site, there are quite a few audio clips of Gayatri mantras available at http://sss.vn.ua/audio/gayatris/. In addition, "Maps Of India" and "Photo-galleries Of India" are useful features.
To read the Russian contents in different languages, use
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and enter the site to view/translate and the language from/to and then click on the Translate button. The translation is certainly not accurate but will give a glimpse and some details of information.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Veda
The site has mp3 of all 4 vedas (including shukla and krisha of yajur)recorded
and made available by Indian Institute of Scietific Heritage,Kerala.
The site has mp3 of all 4 vedas (including shukla and krisha of yajur)recorded
and made available by Indian Institute of Scietific Heritage,Kerala.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Have a look at the collection of stotras with refreshing presentation at http://www.stutimandal.com/. The site has texts and images of various deities.
The MP3 files of complete chanting of Rigveda, Yajurveda, Atharvaveda, and Samaveda along with speeches and articles on the subject are available at http://www.nandanmenon.com/, the leading site for the Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage http://www.iish.org, astrojyoti.com, and http://www.gatewayforindia.com/vedas/vedas.html.
Here are some newer web-logs (blogs) in Sanskrit in addition to those presented on July 29, 2006
http://satyayugam.blogspot.com by M. R. Rao
http://kalidasa.blogspot.com by Ajit Krishnan
http://koham.wordpress.com by Avinash Varna
http://satyayugam.blogspot.com by M. R. Rao
http://kalidasa.blogspot.com by Ajit Krishnan
http://koham.wordpress.com by Avinash Varna
Also read
Richness of Sanskrit Language by Daddy.
Summer Courses on Indian Culture/Sanskrit at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Vishal Monpara has developed software tools to write Indian scripts online. Visit his site http://www.vishalon.net/, and select typepads for several languages.
पांच संस्कृत मनीषियों को भवभूति, भर्तृहरि और पतंजलि पुरस्कार |
On 16th April, in Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Madhyapradesh, five Sanskrit scholars were honoured with Bhavabhuti, Bhartrihari, and Patanjali awards.
Bhavabhuti: Shriramachandra (Karnatak) for his lifelong service for Sanskrit
Bhartrihari (2005-2006): Pt. Jagadish Prasad Tripathi (kaTanii)
Bhartrihari (2006-2007): Shri Ranganathacharya (Ujjain)
Patanjali (2005-2006): Shri Somanath Nene
Patanjali (2006-2007) Shri Bhagavat Sharan Shukla
In his speech, the chief guest Shri Ishvardas Rohani said that "to discover the knowledge contained in the Vedic/ancient literature, knowing Sanskrit is the only means. The spiritual knowledge was discovered, retained, and presented by the sages after thousands of years of research and tradition. To have this tradition maintained, the government should make efforts to teach Sanskrit to children from the first grade."
Rest of the news item.
On 16th April, in Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Madhyapradesh, five Sanskrit scholars were honoured with Bhavabhuti, Bhartrihari, and Patanjali awards.
Bhavabhuti: Shriramachandra (Karnatak) for his lifelong service for Sanskrit
Bhartrihari (2005-2006): Pt. Jagadish Prasad Tripathi (kaTanii)
Bhartrihari (2006-2007): Shri Ranganathacharya (Ujjain)
Patanjali (2005-2006): Shri Somanath Nene
Patanjali (2006-2007) Shri Bhagavat Sharan Shukla
In his speech, the chief guest Shri Ishvardas Rohani said that "to discover the knowledge contained in the Vedic/ancient literature, knowing Sanskrit is the only means. The spiritual knowledge was discovered, retained, and presented by the sages after thousands of years of research and tradition. To have this tradition maintained, the government should make efforts to teach Sanskrit to children from the first grade."
Rest of the news item.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Generate Devanagari unicode text online with Itrans notation using (H)iTrans at http://www.giitaayan.com/x.htm. Vinay Jain has also built an interface to the Itrans Song Book, ISB, at http://www.giitaayan.com/ with indexing. Read the collection of Hindi Mondegreens on manbol section.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Mahabharata Resources at http://www.mahabharata-resources.org/. The site includes links to Bibliographies, Electronic Text of CE, Ganguli Translation etc., Harivamsa, Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya, Translations, Retellings, Online Articles etc.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Read Unicode code text in your favorite language script by visiting http://www.bhomiyo.com/xliteratepage.aspx.
For example, enter http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_sa/ in the Site, Select a Language, Click Go and look at X-Literation tab. (There are only a few texts displayed in Unicode on this page. Rest are in the http://sanskritdocuments.org/.)
This site transliterates from one Indian Unicode Script to another and English. One can transliterate Sanskrit documents to English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada etc. If a Stotra is typed into one of the Unicode Language it can be easily converted into another as above.
For example, enter http://sanskritdocuments.org/all_sa/ in the Site, Select a Language, Click Go and look at X-Literation tab. (There are only a few texts displayed in Unicode on this page. Rest are in the http://sanskritdocuments.org/.)
This site transliterates from one Indian Unicode Script to another and English. One can transliterate Sanskrit documents to English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada etc. If a Stotra is typed into one of the Unicode Language it can be easily converted into another as above.
In addition, http://www.bhomiyo.com/typepad.aspx?lang=hi has an excellent typing pad to generate the text for emailing or display in different languages.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Listen to the Sanskrit daily audio news along with news in English, Hindi and other regional languages of India on http://www.newsonair.com/. The files are updated daily. Some archives can be found in sanskritnews.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Download Hindi Writer to type the text in Devanagari and copy/paste to send it over email.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
An archive of Sanskrit dictionaries, readers & grammars in German, English & Russian.
Download free devanagari fonts & transliteration convert macros, OCR.
http://nagari.southindia.ru (history and hi-res scans of Indian typography)
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Visit http://www.sanskritdeepika.org/, a commendable project by Dnyandeep Infotech Pvt. Ltd. There are educational sections Sanskrit Dictionary( Sanskritkosh), Sanskrit Audio Section (Dhvani_Vibhag, presented by Shubhangi Ranade), and book presentation in Marathi and Sanskrit.
rAjya vikAs marAThI sa.nsthA, for the promotion and development of Marathi. राज्य मराठी विकास संस्था, मराठी भाषेचा सर्वांगीण वापर वाढविण्यासाठी. Search is available with direct Devanagari entry. Browse through current projects, सद्य प्रकल्प, publications, प्रकाशने and other subsections. The results of 2006 Marathi Website Competition arranged by Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha are
- First Prize : Avakashvedh ( Sachin Pilankar, Prabhadevi, Mumbai) Astronomy website in Marathi
- Second Prize : Manogat ( Mahesh Velankar, Florida, U.S.A.) Various Marathi subjects and literature
- Third Prize : Trekshitiz ( Prajakta Mahajan, Dombivali) site on trekking
- Third Prize : Tarunai ( Vandana Khare, Pukar, Fort, Mumbai) Mumbai Lokajeevan, Marathi Public Sphere
- Consolation Prize : P.L.Deshpande ( Smita Manohar, kalwa, Thane) All about Pu la.
- Consolation Prize : My Kolhapur ( S.V. Ranade, Sangali)
Monday, January 15, 2007
The Digital Library of India (DLI) is now expanded in to four centers with different collection of books in various languages categorized differently.
DLI Bangalore server http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
DLI Noida server http://www.dli.cdacnoida.in/
DLI Pitsburg server via Carnegie Mellon University , USA http://tera-2.ul.cs.cmu.edu/
Digital Library of Inda Hyderabad server, A govt. library housing many books of yore http://dli.iiit.ac.in/
DLI Bangalore server http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
DLI Noida server http://www.dli.cdacnoida.in/
DLI Pitsburg server via Carnegie Mellon University , USA http://tera-2.ul.cs.cmu.edu/
Digital Library of Inda Hyderabad server, A govt. library housing many books of yore http://dli.iiit.ac.in/
Monday, January 08, 2007
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Clay Sanskrit Library,
"The Clay Sanskrit Library has been created to introduce Classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership." The library has Sanskrit text, written in familiar Roman letters, faces the English translation, and the convenient pocket size is both elegant and practical.
Forty-five leading scholars from ten countries are cooperating to produce fresh new translations that combine readability and accuracy. The first fifteen titles appeared in 2005, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation. Four more were published in July and another three in October 2006. They will be followed by six in December and two more in March 2007. Within the next four years the Clay Sanskrit Library will grow to about a hundred titles. The selection will focus on drama, poetry and novels, together with the famous epics.
"The Clay Sanskrit Library has been created to introduce Classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership." The library has Sanskrit text, written in familiar Roman letters, faces the English translation, and the convenient pocket size is both elegant and practical.
Forty-five leading scholars from ten countries are cooperating to produce fresh new translations that combine readability and accuracy. The first fifteen titles appeared in 2005, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation. Four more were published in July and another three in October 2006. They will be followed by six in December and two more in March 2007. Within the next four years the Clay Sanskrit Library will grow to about a hundred titles. The selection will focus on drama, poetry and novels, together with the famous epics.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Study Hindi at unilang.org. The lessons, teaching the basics of Hindi and its devangari writing, are developed by Somebody with email sart_blitz@abv.bg . Lessons are presented in Unicode. There is a list of Hindi-English-German Dictionary words which are used in the lessons.
"Unilang is an open non-profit organization, a site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations." All the courses and resources are available free.
"Unilang is an open non-profit organization, a site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations." All the courses and resources are available free.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
The Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Site at http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/. The University of the West, Los Angeles, Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods (A Center For Buddhist Studies)Chakupat, Lalitpur, Nepal, Honorary Master Hsing Yun, and Prof. Lewis Lancaster, began the Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project (SBCP) in 2003. The texts, about 680 in number listed below, are available for viewing in both Devanagari fonts and Roman transliteration. Texts are arranged by sUtras, shAstras, and stotras in ring-control selector. Both Sanskrit and Pali texts are included in catalogue. Contact the universities at http://www.uwest.edu/sanskritcanon/contact.html for additional information.
View DJVU Document WordIndexToTaittriyaSamhita at archive.org.
View DJVU Document of Dharmakosha at archive.org
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) aims to represent all the sounds of all languages of the world. See http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/IPA_chart_(C)2005.pdf . At the following address http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/chapter1.html, you can hear what sound is represented by these particular letters.
Free classes on Sanskrit and Spirituality via Internet and Teleconference by Dr Satyavati S Kandala, PhD (Sanskrit ) with the blessings of HH Sri Chinnajeeyar Swamiji. Please visit www.kandala.org for more details. Telebridge Telephone Number: 1 641 297 4600, Telebridge Pin Number : 386211#
An opportunity exists to learn Sanskrit using video conferencing with MS Windows Live Messenger. It is coordinated by Les Morgan. Contact him les at growthhouse.org if interested.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
English translation of Tripura Rahasya. The Russian translations of Sanskrit texts such as Tripura Rahasya, Avadhuta Gita, Yoga Rahasya, Yoga Shastra, Jivanmukta Gita, Dattatreya Upanishad & some other Datta related texts are translated by Vasyl Vernyhora. These are available at http://sss.vn.ua/. Vasyl has also developed http://dattatreya.ru/ carrying mp3s, jpgs, Russian texts files.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology by D. Hatcher Childress from The Anti-Gravity Handbook. "Chinese discovered some sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated..................Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously, but then became more positive about the value of them when the Chinese announced that they were including certain parts of the data for study in their space program! This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be researching anti-gravity. "
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Some unique Marathi sites
- Nityopasana by Praveen Kulkarni
- Marathi World.com
- manogat.com by Mahesh Velankar
- Maayboli.com, Hitguj Diwali Anka 2006
- Marathi documents and links
- davbindu.com
- paamar-smruti and disAmAjI kahItarI
On nandanmenon.com, you can Download and listen full Rig-Veda manthras of Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage, IISH, iish.org in MP3 format. Download articles about Rig-Veda by Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry,Institute of Vedic Culture in .pdf format · Rig Veda in English - .pdf format, translated by R. T. Hotchkin Griffith (1826-1906) also links to html pages. Links to“Introduction to the Vedas” By Swami Sivaananda, The Divine Life Society, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India and Links to Vedic Scriptures in Sanskrit.
News clippings at BBC
Sanskrit struggles to survive
Ancient Sanskrit manuscript goes digital
Romany, an ancient sanskrit language that originated in the Indus Valley 1, Language, Early History
Patent to protect ancient knowledge
Sanskrit struggles to survive
Ancient Sanskrit manuscript goes digital
Romany, an ancient sanskrit language that originated in the Indus Valley 1, Language, Early History
Patent to protect ancient knowledge
Saturday, November 11, 2006
The site http://www.shrivasudevanandsaraswati.com/ hosts many Sanskrit and Marathi texts composed by Shri Vasudevanandsaraswati Tembe Swami (1854-1914). His major Sanskrit literary works such as Shri Gurcharitam (Dwisahasri), Shri Dattapuran, Yogarahasya, Bodharahasya and Churnika, Shri Krishnalahari, Shri Dattachampu, Panch Pakshik et cetera along with voluminous Marathi literature are available at this site. A simple registration is required for download.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Learn Sanskrit Words and chant Sanskrit for Yoga at learn-sanskrit.com
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Books & CDs
Vedas & Computers (English)
The book deals with the following aspects
1. Several scientific aspects of Computer Software are observed in Vedas and Sastras almost in the same form.
2. The approach of compilers in translating the statements of computer languages is found to closely follow the approach of Mimamsa in its Vakyartha Vicharana.
3. It is also observed that certain aspects which are well established in Mimamsa are not yet implemented in computers.
4. The Present exercise is a humble beginning in the direction of:
a. Highlighting the parallels of both the systems and
b. Exploring the utility of the Vedic System for furtherance of modern computer technology.
Vedic Mathematics – Part 1 (Telugu)
Vedic Mathematics – Part 2 (Telugu)
Vedas & Computers (English)
The book deals with the following aspects
1. Several scientific aspects of Computer Software are observed in Vedas and Sastras almost in the same form.
2. The approach of compilers in translating the statements of computer languages is found to closely follow the approach of Mimamsa in its Vakyartha Vicharana.
3. It is also observed that certain aspects which are well established in Mimamsa are not yet implemented in computers.
4. The Present exercise is a humble beginning in the direction of:
a. Highlighting the parallels of both the systems and
b. Exploring the utility of the Vedic System for furtherance of modern computer technology.
Vedic Mathematics – Part 1 (Telugu)
Vedic Mathematics – Part 2 (Telugu)
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Listen to Marathi radio on internet at http://www.eprasaran.com/, an innovative fresh approach of few dedicated Marathi speakers. The programs are presented live as well streamed from archive. The items include kathA-kathan, Geetanjali, ApalI AwaD, svarasandhyA, Raga based melody scape, gappA-goShTii, and question answers.
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Listen to talks by Swami Paramarthananda at http://vedantavidyarthisangha.org. The topics include Mundaka bhashyam, Bhagvadgita, meditation and daily life, and other classes.
Listen to talks by Swami Tadatmananda's on the Bhagavad Gita at http://www.arshabodha.org at Arsha Bodha center.
Swami Jyotirmayananda's talks are available on http://www.yrf.org/, Yoga Research Foundation site. A video and live broadcast are the newer features.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Visit Kiran Paranjape's http://freetranslationblog.blogspot.com/ for free translation of words and sentences. He also maintains a site for Sanskrit quotations, proverbs, and phrases for inspiration & motivation.
Klaus Glashoff has initiated a new online hypertext dictionary at http://spokensanskrit.de that allows user input in style of Wikipedia entries. Many phrases for conversational use are included. One can navigate from one word to the other by clicking on it. The display is in Unicode Devanagari as well as in transliteration format. Please support the effort with accurate entries.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Read the Sanskrit newsfeeds and podcasts that consolidate current "Sanskrit in the news" by various RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed sites. (see FAQ). The idea is initiated by Les Morgan of San Fransisco, California. His site http://www.mywhatever.com/sanskrit/ provides instructional materials including audio files for Sanskrit student.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Learn Sanskrit, read stories and poems in Sanskrit at http://sanskritseekho.blogspot.com. Shastri Nityagopal Katare (शास्त्री नित्यगोपाल कटारे) has presented lessons material for learning Sanskrit through Hindi. This would be intermediate learning approach. (The samskrtam.wordpress.com is also intermediate level and Learn Sanskrit Blog would be in more advanced category.) Shastriji tried another approach earlier at http://n.domaindlx.com/shastri/Sansk/Sanskrit.htm while conducting online Sanskrit classes through easy_sanskrit@yahoo.com on Yahoo messenger. He started http://www.sanskritbhasha.blogspot.com/, आओ सीखें संस्कृत भाषा through Hindi in 2005 but hardly had a few postings, through http://www.hindikonpal.blogspot.com/ . Some of the postings are consolidated in the sanskritseekho link above. In www.sanskritbhasha.blogspot.com, there is an interesting article entitled योग का व्यावहारिक रूप है संस्कृत भाषा के रहस्य.
