E-readers for several Sanskrit texts

[Amba Kulkarni]

Dear lists,

I am glad to share with you that as a part of an ongoing project 'Sanskrit Knowledge Accessor', funded by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology,  we have developed E-readers  for the following texts available at https://start.samsaadhanii.in .

a) Srimadbhadgvadgītā

b) Raghuvaṃśaṃ

c) upaniṣadas -- īśā, kena and kaṭha

d) Aśṭāṅgahṛdayaṃ - first 15 adhyāyas

e) Sundarakāṇḍa

f) Saṃkśepa-rāmāyaṇam

g) Mahābhārata - udyoga-parva

h) Around 1000 sentences picked up from Satavalekar's 'Saṃskrit-svayaṃ-śikṣaka'

An E-reader provides the following information:

i) Original verse

ii) It's pada-chheda

iii) It's anvaya

iv) Morphological analysis of each word

v) kāraka and samāsa tagging

vi) Dictionary help - Amarakoṣa, Apte's Sanskrit-Hindi, Monnier William's Skt-Eng, Skt-French by Gérard Huet, and Sanskrit-German. For Ayurveda, we have also integrated the Ayurveda Technical terminology dictionary available at Namaste portal.

And finally you can see the relations between the words in the form of a graph.

These E-readers are developed semi-automatically using the Samsaadhanii platform, and Heritage platform, and the results thus obtained were manually edited/corrected further.

The kaaraka tags and the samaasa tags used for annotations are available at the guidelines page .

The Sanity checking of some of the texts is still ongoing. 

Meanwhile, we would like to have feedback from you on this effort.

Further, if anybody is interested in developing an E-reader for any new text, you can use the START platform. Please contact me to get annotator access.

Thanking you in advance,

Amba Kulkarni

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University of Hyderabad

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Indian Institute of Technology

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[Amba Kulkarni]

Dear Dominik,

On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 23:08, Dominik Wujastyk <wuja...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Amba, 

Thank you for this extraordinary set of facilities.

I'm interested in what you refer to as "Sanity Checking".  What is that?

Well, the Sanity checking is just to check if the annotation follows Paninian rules of grammar.

Since the annotation is manually edited, we would like to ensure that if an annotator changes the kāraka role, she also corrects the morphological analysis, if the selection by machine were wrong.

As a very trivial example, in the case of a neuter noun, if a word is marked as a kartā, then we must ensure that the nominative analysis is chosen, and not the accusative.

As you know, there is a great deal of textual variation lurking behind the nineteenth and twentieth century printed texts that we all depend on.  How do you decide what a "text" is for your systems, since there is so much variation at the granular level?  It doesn't look as if you are editing from manuscripts, unless Sanity Checking includes editorial activity.

We have chosen the version that is typically being used for teaching purposes. If there are variations, we are ignoring them at present.

The meta information for each book is being updated, and will be available in the next few days under the 'about' tab for each book.

For  Ṛgveda, we represent the Sayaṇāchārya's interpretation.

For Mahābhārata, we have chosen the BORI's critical edition.

best,

Amba

Best,

Dominik

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आ नो भद्रा: क्रतवो यन्तु विश्वत: ll
Let noble thoughts come to us from every side.
- Rig Veda, I-89-i.

Sr. Professor & Head
Department of Sanskrit Studies
University of Hyderabad

Prof. C.R. Rao Road 

Hyderabad-500 046

(91) 040 23133802(off)

http://scl.samsaadhanii.in

http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/scl

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