Sanskrit Documents

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  • Sanskrit Bharati 1 | Sanskrit Bharati 2 - Speak Sanskrit - a Movement for social change through Sanskrit. - Sanskrit Geet, Sanskrit Kathaa, Sanskrit Dictionary, Sanskrit word games, Publications in Sanskrit, Sambhaashana Sandeshah, Sanskrit sentences, Sanskrit Mailing List and Sanskrit-related online resources.
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  • University of Cologne - Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies Indoligical Resources - The Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL) project undertakes to digitize and merge the major bilingual Sanskrit dictionaries compiled in the 19th century. Its aim is to provide a basic lexical corpus to provide an easy access to all available meanings of Sanskrit words. In the first stage Monier-William's Sanskrit-English dictionary (MW) has been digitized to be followed by three other digital dictionaries - Capellers Sanskrit-English Dictionary (Cap), Böhtling and Schmidt.

  • Sanskrit Texts and Stotras - Beautifully formatted Sanskrit texts and stotras in pdf format, plus learning tools, audio recordings, Sanskrit courses, and books. Most of the texts are in Devanagari script with English translation. Contact sanskrittexts@hotmail.com for more details.

  • VedaVid - Maintained by John Gardner, University of Iowa School of Religion - large amount of data organized for dissertation on early Vedic traditions and texts of Ancient India (c. 1500 b.c.e.). Presents electronic texts - Rig Veda, Shatapatha BraahmaNa with details indexes. Also.. interesting notes regarding spectral analysis on recordings of mantra recitation.

  • Ancient Scripts of the World

  • List of sanskrit and indological research institutes in india.

  • Wordlwide Sanskrit Studies and Institutes list prepared by Professor Gudrun Bünn,.

  • More Sanskrit Documents (Site is in Japan, connections may be slow).

  • INDOLOGY discussion list - was founded in 1990 by Dominik Wujastyk as a forum for Sanskritists, MIA and NIA language specialists, Dravidologists, historians, and others interested in any aspect of Indological studies. That includes other languages, of course, and anything related.

    [ The last two sites contain a decent amount of Sanskrit documents, but not in ITRANS format. If you want vi/sed files to convert these to ITRANS, please email us at sanskrit@cheerful.com ]

  • The TITUS Project - Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text und Sprachmaterialien. Material from languages relevant for Indo-European studies. Portion of texts can be downloaded and can be used freely for scholarly purposes with some restrictions, Some texts are restricted to members of the TITUS project. Pages are described in German. Some sample items - [Vedica] [Sanscritica] [Buddhistica] [Palica] [Pracritica] [Rajasthanica] [Hindica] [Maledivica]. Email contacts for queries - gippert@em.uni-frankfurt.de | martinez@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

  • Sanskrit palm leaf manuscripts:

  • Sid Harth's HomePage - his 'interesting things' pages - general articles, Sanskrit pages, Sanskrit articles in Devanaagarii script, Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, links for sanskrit books, Online French dictionary, etc.

  • RK Fonts - maintained by R.Kainhofer - a collection of TrueType fonts for MS Windows (Version 3.1 ++), including Sanskrit. All fonts are in Windows TTF format and do not need special program for text entry - they work with standard editors such as (WordPad, Write, MS Word, WordPerfect etc.) Keyboard layouts are given.

  • Center for Buddhist Studies - site is in Taiwan , connections may be slow. This site is going in a 'big-way' towards putting scanned grammar and Sanskrit documents on the net. You may want to see their Sanskrit lessons or Buddhist Sanskrit scriptures sub-pages or contact - Miroslav Rozehnal. (Note: Some of the Devanaagarii displays may be too slow for access as hundreds of small Devanaagarii word GIF images have to be loaded. Also the transliteration in the lessons does not distinguish between diirgha and hrasva vowels.)

  • York University in Canada provides Sanskrit translations of literary works of Bhasa, Kalidasa, and Harsha along with a long list of Sanskrit words suitable for flash cards printing.

  • Peter M. Scharf has initiated a Sanskrit Library project with is browsable portion of panchatantra with meaning through "standard" online reader kramapaaTha. You will need to register and it comes up one line at a time with transliteration and meaning. Please browse through. Select standard in Tools Reader/Index and choose a version: standard or plug-in

  • The Heart Sutra - in Tibetan and Sanskrit scripts and English translation, maintained by McComas Taylor.

  • Jambudvipa - Indology and Sanskrit Studies is hosted by Paolo Magnone, Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature, Catholic University of Milan, Italy. The site has original e-text of Somadeva's Vet÷lapañcavi¼.ati (vetaalapa.nchavi.nshati) . There are many categorized links as a "Guide to select indological websites."


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