Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Dictionary App for iPhone and iPad

[shrinivasa varakhedi]

Please allow this useful cross posting. 

Regards. 

Shrivara

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From: Charles DiSimone <charles...@gmail.com>
Date: December 8, 2013 at 5:19:16 GMT+5:30
To: James Hartzell <james.h...@gmail.com>
Cc: Indology List <indo...@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit Dictionary App for iPhone and iPad

Dear James,

If you need an offline Sanskrit dict for OSX there are several options.  

With an app called DictUnifier you can turn stardict files into mac dictionary files and search them from Apple's native dictionary app.  It is quite convenient and useful, with many dictionaries available (MW, Apte, the Pali Text Society dict, etc.): 

https://code.google.com/p/mac-dictionary-kit/downloads/list

You can also use the Kotonoko app, which has dictionaries available for MW, Apte, Tibetan dicts, and many others:

http://osx.iusethis.com/app/kotonoko

You can even make the Köln online MW dict available locally on your hard drive for offline use:

http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/index.html

Additionally, while I am quite pleased to see this new iOS dictionary, I'd like to point out that there are several Sanskrit dictionaries available in the app store for free in case anyone wants to save $5 (not that this is an expensive price for the convenience of these dictionaries in your pocket!).

Best wishes,

Charlie

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:59 PM, James Hartzell <james.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great work!

Do you have a Mac OSX version to use on laptops?

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Audrey Truschke <audrey....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Indology Folks,

This announcement comes courtesy of Harpreet Singh at Harvard. Exciting news!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Sanskrit Dictionary App for iPhone and iPad

Our national nightmare of lugging around Monier-Williams is finally over.  We have just released a Sanskrit dictionary app for iPhone and iPad. The app, developed in the Harvard Innovation Lab, combines three major dictionaries that are commonly used by scholars of Sanskrit--Monier-Williams, Apte and Macdonell. In addition, references from dhatu-patha (a collection of verbal roots with final forms) are also provided, when available. All words can be searched using a Devanagari keyboard.  Once downloaded, the app does not require internet access to operate. Special thanks to the faculty in Harvard's Department of South Asian Studies for their encouragement and support during the app's development.

More Information: http://www.tinyurl.com/sanskrit-app

If you missed the announcement about classical Hindi app for iOS and Android, you can learn about it here: http://tinyurl.com/hindi-app

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[Shrivathsa B]

hariH OM,

   I don't know why the stardict suporting dictionary apps available in the app store are not good (why can't apple have a good free app which can support stardict dictionaries?). I tried various versions of stardict format supporting apps but couldn't find one which actually works (the ones which worked were not rendering fonts properly or were truncating entries. i.e. not showing entries fully).

   In android, the colordict app is simple, easy to use and blazing fast. Unfortunately it is not available in itunes (unless you wish to jailbreak etc. which i am not thinking of). Spent about 4 days searching for a good dictionary app on istore, trying to put the stardict dictionaries i have (from aupasana) into some other formats and finally gave up. Android seems more user friendly when it comes to bhAratiiya content. I have been using colordict for the past 2 yrs and it works really good. my wish to see it on a bigger screen (ipad) was futile.

svasti,

       JAYA BHAVAANII BHAARATII,

                                                     shrivathsa.

2013/12/8 shrinivasa varakhedi <shri...@gmail.com>

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