Sanskrit Studies
Links and Information

Sanskrit Language Software tools and fonts are now available at the web based Indian Language Data Centre (ILDC) site through Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme. It has the objective to develop information processing tools to facilitate human machine interaction in Indian languages and to develop technologies to access multilingual knowledge resources. कार्यक्रमस्य ध्येयम् अस्ति – मानवयन्त्रयोर्मध्ये भाषावरोधेन विना अन्योन्यक्रियासौकर्याय सूचना प्रक्रियाकरणोपकरणानां प्रविधीनां च विकसनम्। This activity is being executed in close coordination with CDAC, Gist, Pune.
The software tools for Windows 95/98/XP/2003 and newer and for Linux, include

• Lexical Resources : Online Multilingual Amarakosha (बहुभाषीय अमरकोश), Mahabharata Search (महाभारत अनुक्रमणी)
  
• Language Analyzers : Vowel Sandhi Splitter (स्वर-संधि विश्लेषक), Subanta analyzer (सुबंत विश्लेषक), Tinanta analyzer (तिङन्त विश्लेषक), Kridanta Analyzer (कृदन्त विश्लेषक), POS tagger (पद-परिचायक), Karaka analyzer (कारक-विश्लेषक), Gender Recognizer and Analyzer for Sanjna Pada (GRASP), (संस्कृत-संज्ञापद-लिङ्ग-विश्लेषण)
  
• Language Generators : Sandhi Generator (संधि), Subanta Generator(सुबंत), Tinanta generator (तिङन्त)
  
• Sanskrit Pradipika

Gita Foundation, Miraj, Maharashtra has published a special Diwali Magazine dharmayaj~na 2008 (धर्मयज्ञ दिवाळी अंक २००८) in Marathi. "नैतिकतेच्या अतिरेकास उत्तर देण्याचा नैतिकतेस प्रवृत्त करणारा यज्ञ म्हणजे धर्मयज्ञ॰" The trust is formed by Mr. Dilip V. Apte and a few friends. The special issue is available in PDF format on the site and includes referencee articles by notable individuals.
Subscription to the foundation includes this issue (128 pages) with an audio CD of Gita and portion of Bhagavat, and a monthly newsletter of approximately 40 pages. All proceeds go to needy Children's Education foundation.

Also read following online Diwali Anka

• Hitaguj 2008 Diwali Anka from maayboli.com.
  
• Suresh Bhat Diwali 2008 Visheshanka
  
• ज्ञानदीप Dnyandeep Diwali Anka 2008 at mymarathi.com
  
• दिवाळी अंक २००८ at manogat.com
  
• भारतीय सणांची आध्यात्मिक पार्श्वभूमी by Dhundiraj Vinod, and other Diwali related special articles दीपावलीचें सनातन स्वरूप, दीपावलीचें रहस्य, अल्पांचें व स्वल्पांचें अंत:स्वरूप, लहानगी दीप कलिका under Kartik month.
  
• First audio-visual Diwali magazine आवर्तन : दृक्-श्राव्य दिवाळी अंक
  
• Library and bookstore for books and Diwali Anka at rasik.com. There is a long list of दिवाळी अंक for sale.
  

New All-Sanskrit Vishvani Issue at speaksanskrit.org from umd_samskritam yahoo group.
Nov 10, 2008 : "तुलसीपूजायाः उत्थानद्वादश्याः च शुभाशयाः । अस्मिन् शुभावसरे विश्ववाण्याः नूतना सञ्चिका प्रकाशिता अस्ति । पत्रिकाम् अत्र प्राप्तुं शक्यते : http://www.speaksanskrit.org/vishvavani यथापूर्वम् अस्मिन् अङ्के अपि पदबन्धः प्रहेलिका विविधलेखनानि च सन्ति : अलम् अधिकप्रचारेण, यत्स्वल्पमपि तद्बहु, सङ्गणकेषु देवनागर्या कथं लिख्यते ?, पदबन्धः - ३, सुभाषितम्, प्रहेलिका, मुद्रिकारहस्यम्, परिसरप्रेमी, नरेन्द्रात् विवेकानन्दः,प्रहेलिकायाः उत्तरम्, चातुर्मास्यकथा, सूक्तिः, इत्यादि | पदबन्धस्य उत्तरं डिसेम्बर्-मासान्त्यात् पूर्वं यैः प्रेष्यते, तेषां नामानि अग्रिमाङ्के प्रकाशिष्यन्ते । पत्रिकां पठित्वा भवतां प्रतिस्पन्दान् vishvavani [[at]speaksanskrit.org प्रति प्रेषयन्तु । लेखनानि शीघ्रमेव http://vishvavani.blogspot.com इत्यत्र अपि उपलब्धानि भवन्ति ।"

Read the poetic presentation Significance of pancha-bhootas and the exchanges by Kavitha Kalyan at Indian Temples and Iconography site.

Banglapedia, National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, has an historical overview of Sanskrit from ancient times to the present. The article is written by Narayan Chandra Biswas and highlights contribution of notable Bengali speakers to the advancement of Sanskrit literature and learning. A project for collecting and developing manuscripts, storing them in microfilms format, accompanied by short descriptions, was conducted from 1984-1988 under the supervision of Dhaka University Library. It has resulted in multivolume collection.