stardict dictionaries covering multiple indian langauges added.

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

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After a major update, stardict dictionaries are now available for many more Indian languages.

As usual, you can use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sanskritcode.sanskritdictionaryupdater to install them on your phone. For tips regarding use on other devices check https://sites.google.com/site/sanskritcode/dictionaries#TOC-How-to-install-and-use-dictionaries-on-your-device- .

​​Note: Our indices allow for 113+ dictionaries in the following languages to be installed: Sanskrit, pALi, kannaDa, hindI, telugu, tamiL / tamizh, marathi, punjabi/ panjabi, nepali, oriya/ odiya, assamese/ Asamiya, malayalam, greek, latin, english (संस्कृतम्, पाली/ पाळी, हिन्दी, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ/ پنجابی‬, कन्नडम् (ಕನ್ನಡ), తెలుగు, தமிழ், മലയാളം, ଓଡ଼ିଆ,  অসমীয়া) which you can search with the native script as well as with intuitive devanAgarI and roman transliterations (<-- feedback regarding this is welcome as well).

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

bcc: same as below.

Some new dicts have been published online for use with a variety of devices. As usual, you can use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sanskritcode.sanskritdictionaryupdater to install them on your android phone. For tips regarding use on other devices check https://sanskrit-coders.github.i/dictionaries/offline/#how-to-install-and-use-dictionaries-on-your-device . Further, a video tutorial is now available:  koshadarshanam series by Chandrasekharan Raman of Vyoma pAThashAla . Possibly related handouts: android 2019,  Windows, iphone (whose dictionary links may need to be updated to reflect the latest canonical sources given https://github.com/indic-dict/stardict-sanskrit/issues/100 .)

The new dicts themselves are:

shrI +dhavala has contributed the ekAkSharanAmamAlA (तदीयकोशप्रकाशनकार्याणि संवर्धन्ताम्!). Example entry:
स

सः सूर्ये च परोक्षे च सं शङ्का वाऽव्ययस्तु सः ॥ ४३ ॥
सङ्गार्थे शोभनार्थे च प्रकृष्टार्थसमर्थयोः ।
प्रथमान्ततदः स्थाने स्मृतौ लक्ष्म्यां च सोच्यते ॥ ४४ ॥

shrI +dAmodara has contributed an Ayurveda kosha अभिधानमञ्जरी. Example entry :

हरिद्रा

मदनादिगणवर्ग » वेल्लादिवर्ग » हरिद्रा
गौरी हरिद्रा रजनी च पीता पिण्डा च पिङ्गेति च काञ्चनी च ।
स्त्रीवल्लभा वर्णवती कृमिघ्नी प्रोक्ता निशाख्यापि च रञ्जनीति ॥८०॥

There is a further kannada-sanskrit kosha (digitized by Andrew Ollett IIRC). An example entry -

ಕೆರೆ

{
  "kn_root":"ಕೆರೆ",
  "sa_meaning":"नखक्रियायाम्",
  "kn_root_latin":"kere",
  "eng_meaning":"to scratch with the nails."
}

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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

bcc: Same as earlier.

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 9:50 PM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:

bcc: same as below.

Some new dicts have been published online for use with a variety of devices. As usual, you can use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=sanskritcode.sanskritdictionaryupdater to install them on your android phone. For tips regarding use on other devices check https://sanskrit-coders.github.i/dictionaries/offline/#how-to-install-and-use-dictionaries-on-your-device .

An important correction: the URL above is missing a letter - it must have been: https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/dictionaries/offline/#how-to-install-and-use-dictionaries-on-your-device

A further note for those directly downloading stardict archives:

As the updated https://github.com/indic-dict/stardict-sanskrit README files says:

• Dictionaries are built with travis-ci and deployed to gh-pages branch of the repository. For example:
  • stardict-sanskrit/gh-pages from stardict-sanskrit
  • stardict-tamil/gh-pages from stardict-tamil

[Shreevatsa R]

It is great to see the number of dictionaries increasing. Has anyone considered making a (mobile-friendly) web app backed by this data, so that one could access all these dictionaries over the internet without downloading and installing anything? (Does one already exist?)

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[Dhaval Patel]

It seems that there is no such development yet. It is very convenient to search on mobile stardict viewer. But a web based app would be also very useful. Some people would not like to download the whole dictionary just to find out later that the word they were looking for does not exist in that dictionary.

@vishvas , There is a hugo based static HTML generator for Ashtadhyayi and its commentaries.

Can we use github pages + hugo + wercker pipeline for these dictionaries too?

Whenever there is editing done in any specific entry of a particular babylon file, that particular static web page can be regenerated via hugo and wercker. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Other members are also requested to suggest their views.

[Avinash L Varna]

Since there was a website that could be used without even installing apps (https://github.com/indic-dict/dict-api/tree/master/docs/polymer-app), the utility of the app was lower. But I see that the website link is broken now (probably due to the move to the new layout at https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/).

If the website is properly deployed, would that serve the same purpose as a mobile app ?

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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:47 AM Avinash L Varna <avinas...@gmail.com> wrote:

Since there was a website that could be used without even installing apps (https://github.com/indic-dict/dict-api/tree/master/docs/polymer-app), the utility of the app was lower. But I see that the website link is broken now (probably due to the move to the new layout at https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/).

Indeed, that repo has moved to https://github.com/indic-dict/dict-api . The API provided by couchdb hosted on that vedavaapi.org server thankfully works ( not sure for how long), but web-app is broken. I just migrated the code from Polymer 2 to Polymer 3, but certain bugs need to be fixed, for which I don't have motivation : polymer keeps changing, we're not so vibrant a community as to have a developer who cares to use a dictionary lookup webcomponent if there were one, it is simpler in the medium term to just write a simple bootstrap + jquery page which will use the API. I might take that up if the following is clear:

Is it better to automatically update a couchdb database hosted on some server some person has kindly provided to us? Or should one rely on auto-generated github-pages and replicate database indexing functionality with a file tree-structure (danger of looooooong build times possibly beyond what travis/ wercker might allow)?
I am not sure yet.

 

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+ sanskrit-programmers aws-sUchanA anyeShAmapy upayogAyAstv iti

On Sat, May 18, 2019, 06:30 Avinash L Varna <avinas...@gmail.com> wrote:

न तथा । उभयत्रापि मया सूचितं DB services प्रमाणं तु "Always Free" स्तर एव उपलभ्यते । यथा - https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Types=categories%23alwaysfree&awsf.Free%20Tier%20Categories=*all

यदि उपयोक्तॄणां संख्या तथा वर्धते यथा 50K reads/day / 200M requests/month अतिक्राम्यते, तर्हि सा तु उत्तमा समस्यैव (good problem to have)। :)

भवतः मित्रं यथायोग्यं पृच्छ्यताम् । यदि तेन नाङ्गीक्रियते, तर्हि मार्गान्तरेण एष विकल्पो भवतु ।

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 5:37 PM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:41 PM Avinash L Varna <avinas...@gmail.com> wrote:

मम personal GCP account वर्तत एव । यदि AWS account रचनीयं तर्हि कर्तुं शक्नोमि ।

Free tier info:

AWS:

25 GB of Storage, 25 Units of Read Capacity and 25 Units of Write Capacity, enough to handle up to 200M requests per month with Amazon DynamoDB.**  per (https://aws.amazon.com/free/faqs/)

"The AWS free usage tier will expire 12 months from the date you sign up. When your free usage expires or if your application use exceeds the free usage tiers, you simply pay standard, pay-as-you-go service rates (see each service page for full pricing details). Restrictions apply; see offer terms for more details." इत्यवधेयम् मित्र।

 

GCP (per https://cloud.google.com/firestore/pricing)

	Free quota per day	Price beyond the free quota (per unit)	Price unit
Document Reads	50,000	$0.06	per 100,000 documents
Document Writes	20,000	$0.18	per 100,000 documents
Document Deletes	20,000	$0.02	per 100,000 documents
Stored Data	1 GB storage	$0.18	GB/Month

अत्राप्येवमेव प्रायेण।

औद्यमिकं किमर्थम् आवश्यकम् इति न अवगतं मया ।

 

केचनौद्यमिकाः संस्कृतप्रोत्साहकास् सन्तो वाणिज्यकारणान्तरैर् AWS इत्यादिकं चालयन्तो धर्माय तथैव कारयेयुस् स्वभृत्यैर् इति। अस्ति तादृशः स्नेहितः यस् स्यात् प्रष्टुम् उचितः।

 

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:05 PM विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki) <vishvas...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 1:33 PM Avinash L Varna <avinas...@gmail.com> wrote:

If server availability is a problem, would it be possible to use free couchdb hosting services (https://www.smileupps.com/free-couchdb-hosting),

तत्र 2.6 million eq hits per month probably insufficient/ tediuous - especially in the beginning.

 

or always free tiers of AWS/GCP to host a similar NOSQL database, instead of investing the effort to replicate a database using files?

Free tier तत्रापि नालं स्याद् इति सन्देहः। AWS इति प्रयोक्तव्या चेद् कश्चिद् औद्यमिकमित्रम् प्रार्थनीयम् भवेत्।

 

 

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