User:Shreevatsa/Sanskrit

I'm trying to compile a useful list of Sanskrit resources online. Feel free to edit this page for whatever reason.

Fonts, input systems

 * Help:Multilingual support (Indic)

Transliteration

 * Harvard-Kyoto → {Devanagari, HTML}
 * {Harvard-Kyoto, ITRANS, Velthuis, Devanagari, IAST, HTML} (mine)
 * Devanagari character picker (by R. Ishida, not Rishi-da)
 * Diacritic Conversion, diCrunch (need to type and click, but lots of formats)
 * Google Indic transliteration (is for Hindi; quite painful to use for Sanskrit)

Grammar

 * Declension of nouns (The Sanskrit Grammarian at sanskrit.inria.fr)
 * Requires gender of noun, and "stem" (not inflected form): see help. Requires Velthuis: See help. This is computer-generated, so it's not always reliable.
 * Some common nouns:
 * सः रामः हरिः गुरुः
 * सा रमा नदी मतिः
 * तत् फल
 * अहम्? अहम् (अस्मद्)? त्वम् (युष्मद्)? त्वम् (त्वद्)?


 * Conjugation of verbs (The Sanskrit Grammarian at sanskrit.inria.fr)
 * Requires root (dhātu) and gaṇa (class), e.g. paṭh (or paṭh?)


 * An Analytical Cross Referenced Sanskrit Grammar
 * An excellent, rather in-depth, "handbook"-type reference

Dictionaries

 * Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries


 * Amarakośa: here, or GRETIL

Searchable

 * Sanskrit–English
 * Sanskrit–English Advanced search (Monier-Williams)
 * Apte Sanskrit–English
 * Macdonell Sanskrit–English
 * Sanskrit and Pahlavi dictionaries (?)
 * Apte, somewhat rudimentary
 * Random glossary (duplicate)
 * Monier-Williams, by letter. (Searchable with your own text-search, that is.)


 * English–Sanskrit
 * English–Sanskrit (Apte)


 * Sanskrit–Sanskrit
 * Shabdakalpadruma
 * Vol 1: अ (p. 37) to अः (p. 351)
 * Vol 2: क (p. 11) to न्रस्थिमाला (p. 932)
 * Vol 3: प (p. 9) to म्लै (p. 797)
 * Vol 4: य (p. 9) to व्लौ (p. 566)
 * Vol 5: श (p. 9) to ळ (p. 552)


 * Vachaspatyam
 * Vol 1: अ p. 37 to आवपन (p. 829)
 * Vol 2: आवपन (p 11) to औष्मा (766)
 * Vol 3: क (6) to गगनसिश्व (894)
 * Vol 4: गगनाङ्गना (9) to दत्त (958)
 * Vol 5: दत्त to पूर्णमास (958)
 * Vol 6: पूर्णमुख (7) to ह्वे (1038)

Scanned

 * Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, archive.org
 * Monier-Williams
 * MacDonell
 * Apte English–Sanskrit
 * Benfey English-Sanskrit: ,
 * Bopp Sanskrit–Latin (Glossarium Sanscritum):, ,
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Learning Sanskrit
"This course of fifteen lessons is intended to lift the English-speaking student who knows nothing of Sanskrit to the level where he can intelligently apply Monier-Williams dictionary and the Dhātu-Pāṭha to the study of the scriptures." The blurry PDFs are generated from PostScript, so it's best to get the ps original. It has more grammar and terminology than necessary, but is quite good. As for the Dhātupāṭha it mentions: I wonder if this will do?
 * A Practical Sanskrit Introductory by Charles Wikner, also available here and at other places:


 * Sanskrit step-by-step at Chitrapur Math
 * From a glance, seems a bit too step-by-step.

Scanned books
(Scanned books, etc. Not very reliable; use with caution. If nothing else they might be amusing.)
 * (orig. 1846)
 * (orig. 1846)
 * (orig. 1846)
 * (orig. 1846)
 * (orig. 1846)

Metre

 * Lubin
 * Ram Karan Sharma
 * Ashwini Deo
 * Metre recogniser

Unsorted
Will clean up later
 * Clay Sanskrit Library links
 * Searchable database of etexts (cannot view, apparently)
 * Sanskrit Web
 * Spokensanskrit.de

Things to read
Warning: Note that most translations are of very poor literary quality, and many of the old ones are written as "exotica".

Easy reading

 * Vishvavani, a magazine published by the student-run "Campus Samskritam" (www.speaksanskrit.org), guided by Samskrita Bharati
 * Sankshepa Ramayana, an assisted "reader"

Rāmāyaṇa

 * Original or with translation.
 * Originals with translation
 * Translation into verse by Ralph T. H. Griffith, 1870–1874
 * "Condensed into english verse" by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899, also here
 * For curiosity: Page images of book with paintings commissioned by Maharana Jagat Singh of Mewar (1628-1652), at the British Library Website

Mahābhārata

 * Original: At GRETIL, Sacred-Texts
 * Translation by Ganguli, 1883-1896
 * Mahabharata Resources, A review of translations

Kālidāsa




















Others

 * Contains an abridged version of the story (39 pages), then "scholarship" until page 48. The next 216 pages are the story with Sanskrit commentary, and 80 pages of word-by-word notes in English. Then some "Bombay University Examination Questions"!




 * (The Sanskrit is in Bengali script.)






















 * (Seems to be a modern work.)




 * Note: ISKCON

Originals
(Without translation, or translation into languages other than English.)

Kālidāsa

















 * (What is this thing?)















Subhāṣita etc.

 * Mahāsubhāṣitasaṃgraha (9979 verses! This seems to be first first 5 volumes, but there are more, at least vol 7 and 11673 verses.)
 * Bhatṛhari: Śatakatraya (1. Nītiśataka, 2. Śṛṅgāraśataka, 3. Vairāgyaśataka)

Others























 * The Neminirvana by Vagbhata




 * (From the library of Arthur W. Ryder, with some margin notes by him: so probably the book he used for his translation?)


 * (Kavyalankara sutras)


 * Has a very readable "Notes on the externals of Indian books" by Charles Rockwell Lanman, the editor.

There is much more wringing and cringing, but you can discover that for yourself.
 * Seems to contain no actual text, only diffs. Uses the word "contaminated" a lot; here is a typical passage:



Translations into non-English
(Just translation, no Sanskrit text.)




 * (Translated from the English of William Jones)
















 * (Hindi)


 * (Urdu translation)








 * (German only?)


 * (Marathi)











Kālidāsa

 * Contains Shakuntala by William Jones, Vikrama and Urvashi by H H Wilson, Meghaduta by HH Wilson (in verse), Kumara Sambhavam by [???] (in prose), Ritusamhara by [???] (in prose), and Raghuvamsha by [???] (in prose).
 * Contains Shakuntala by William Jones, Vikrama and Urvashi by H H Wilson, Meghaduta by HH Wilson (in verse), Kumara Sambhavam by [???] (in prose), Ritusamhara by [???] (in prose), and Raghuvamsha by [???] (in prose).

Abhijñānaśākuntalam



 * (1870 is reprint, what's the original date?)




 * (eight edition!)













Kumārasambhava




Meghadūta








Unsorted





















 * (Yuddhakandam only, I think)










 * Also at









Assorted











 * Also at

Meta: about Sanskrit literature
I would guess many of these are pretty useless, and some outright offensive. Still...







































Misc.

 * Academic Sanskrit Studies around the World
 * Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Languages at Harvard
 * Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard
 * Offsite links to Indo-European Resources at UT Austin