This course of fteen lessons is in tended to lift the English-sp eaking studen t who kno ws nothing of Sanskrit, to the lev el where he can in telligen tly apply Monier-Williams' dictionary 1 and the Dh atu-P at. Ha 2 to the study of the scriptures. The rst v e lessons co v er the pron unciation of basic Sanskrit alphab et, together with its. The knowledge of Sanskrit is very helpful for anyone who is interested in delving into the original texts relating to various subjects from the Indian traditional knowledge systems. This language, however, is often presented as a difficult language to learn for many and moreover as a classical language of the past that is of no special.
There are many online and offline digital tools available to help those interested in reading Sanskrit. Here are some of the best. It is advisable to study Sanskrit with a teacher, so the resources below are not meant to teach Sanskrit per se. They are simply a handful of recommended tools useful to have at your fingertips to help along the way. Pāṇini tools will be posted separately.
Some of these are in DJVU format which is a lighter-weight alternative to PDF. DJVU format makes scrolling through the larger texts such as dictionaries much more pleasant. Download DJVU readers here.
Integrate Sanskrit dictionaries into the built-in Mac Dictionary so you can look up a Sanskrit word in Devanagari or transliteration by the standard OS X mechanisms of simply highlighting the word or multi-finger double-tapping.
Golden Dictionary is a wonderful free program that gives searchable offline access to Apte and Monier Williams Sanskrit-English dictionaries as well as English-Sanskrit lookups and Pāṇini Sūtra-s, commentaries, Dhātupāṭha etc. You can also set it up to query online sources such as the spoken Sanskrit online dictionary It is much easier than other dictionary alternatives and a joy to use, though occasionally unstable and some entries seem to be truncated.
Nicely scanned and individually named pages. Find the page containing the word you want and open it up. Can work on mobile platforms too with the right reader.
PDF format
TIFF format
More soft-copy dictionaries are in the Arsha Drishti Library.
Kale Higher Sanskrit Grammar – A thorough and authoritative resource with Pāṇini references
Learn to directly type directly in देवनागरी and love life forever.
Use the built-in Hindi input methods. HERE is a good video tutorial. This is the simplest approach if you don’t need transliterated characters.
ArshaDrishti Sanskrit keyboard layout allows you to easily and directly enter both Devanāgarī and transliteration with diacritical marks. It is a modification of the DevUni (Devanāgarī Unicode) keyboard layout.
1. Download the file ArshaDrishti Sanskrit V2.2.bundle.zip from Arsha Drishti HERE
2. Unzip the file
3. Copy the unzipped file ArshaDrishti Sanskrit V2.2.bundle into /Library/Keyboard Layouts. This may require administrator authentication
4. In System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard tab check the box: “Show keyboard & emoji viewers in menu bar”
5. In System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sourcesclick the “+” icon on the lower left. Then select “Sanskrit” in the left column. Select “ArshaDrishti Sanskrit” in the right column and click Add
6. In the same tab System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sourcescheck the box“Show input menu in menu bar”
7. Quit System Preferences
8. From the input menu pull-down in the menu bar select “ArshaDrishti Sanskrit”. You should see the icon next to it
9. Also select “Show Keyboard Viewer” from the same dropdown menu to show the keyboard viewer.
10. Press the shift key and the option key individually and also together with the caps lock off to see the various transliteration characters in the keyboard viewer,
11. Press the shift key and the option key individually and also together with the caps lock on to see the devanāgarī characters in the keyboard viewer.
Important Keys:
Caps Lock – shifts you in and out of Devanāgarī mode
Shift
Option
Option-Shift
“f” key gives you the virāma allowing creation of conjunct consonants
To type in Devanāgarī, turn the Caps Lock on. Look at the Keyboard Viewer to understand the keyboard layout. See the additional characters made available by the Shift, Option, and Shift-Option keys.
To use transliteratedcharacters ensure Caps Lock is off. Look at the Keyboard Viewer to understand the keyboard layout. See the additional characters made available by the Option and Shift-Option keys. Without the option key, the standard keyboard is available.
Known bugs:
1) Rarely used Devanāgarī non-initial long ॠ / ṝ, long ॡ / Ḷ and short ऌ / ḷ characters do not properly appear under the consonant;
Workaround: Using “Show Emojis and Symbols” find the following Devanāgarī characters and add to your “Favorites” in the character viewer:
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L
You can now insert these non-initial vowels after a consonant by clicking on them in your Character Viewer Favorites – e.g. कॄ कॣ कॢ
2) Insertion of an extra space after a virāma e.g. सूत््रर instead of सूत्र
Scope: Some chrome input fields
Workaround: Backspace one space after entering a virāma, and conjunct consonants will form properly
Vidyut – The Vidyut keyboard enables direct typing of Unicode-compliant Devanāgarī and selected Sanskrit Vedic and metrical marks on Windows computers using a phonetic method.
BarahaIME is a well-established Windows Input Method Editor (IME) for a variety of Indic languages. 30 day free trial
Keyman Desktop allows a large number of scripts that people have made to handle a variety of foreign languages. The script (keyboard manager) to use along with this is the Heidelberg Input Solution. It makes use of the International Standard for transliteration. For example, it converts a ‘s’ into palatal by typing a ` before the s, a cerebral by typing a . before the s, and so on. Recommended font is Siddhanta.
Google Input Tool – Used to provide a free downloadable tool for Windows; Now has only Chrome extension and Android version; Can also be used online.
Both Android and iPhone have Devanāgarī keyboard layouts you can enable or download.
Roots, Verb Forms and Primary Derivatives by Whitney – A quick and easy reference for verbs and verbals
Many more Western and Pāṇinīya Sanskrit grammars, primers, readers, dictionaries etc. will be available soon in the Arsha Drishti Virtual Library.Pāṇini tools coming soon.
In this course, the students will learn how to converse in Sanskrit on topics of daily life by using classical and modern vocabulary. Active participation of the students and modern multi-media tools will facilitate the learning process in the interactively designed course. Thus, the students and scholars will be able to overcome the perception of Sanskrit as a written-only, “dead” language, and increase their confidence in actively using this language. The study of Sanskrit will become a lively and creative experience for the students and will also contribute to their understanding of the written language. The course is a unique opportunity to learn and practice spoken Sanskrit in a dynamic environment.
Organized by:
- Spracheninstitut an der Universität Leipzig e.V.,
- Ritterstr. 12,
- D-04109 Leipzig,
- Germany,
- Tel.: +49(0)341-9730281
- Mail: spokensanskrit@uni-leipzig.de
Venue:
Dr. Sadananda Das is widely known as an excellent speaker and experienced teacher of spoken Sanskrit. He has taught seventeen summer school courses in spoken Sanskrit at Heidelberg University, three at Lausanne University, and three at the Australian National University, besides five courses in advanced spoken Sanskrit at Florence University, at the Centre of Sanskrit Studies in Barcelona, at the Jñāna Pravāha Centre for Cultural Studies in Varanasi and at the Śādvala Centre for Sanskrit Studies in Goa. This year’s course will take place at Leipzig University for the fifth time. In the past eighteen years the course has attracted students and scholars of Indology and related fields from across the globe.
The Summer School will take place online because of Corona. You will work together with Dr. Das with the help of video conferences and Moodle (learning management system). For the video conferences you will need a microphone and loudspeakers or a headset. You will also need a fast internet connection.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of English and basic knowledge of Sanskrit (at least 4 semesters) as well as the ability to read Devanāgarī script. The course will be taught in Sanskrit.
Timetable: Classes from 10:00 to 16:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10:00 to 13:00 on Wednesday and Saturday. Please note: The time table is based on local (german) time.
Application: Please download the application form.
Number of participants limited to 20.
Deadline: 30th of June.
Course fee: 390.00 EUR. This includes 82 units (45 minutes each) of instruction and the teaching materials.
The course fee must be paid in full by 11st of June 2021, by bank transfer to the following account:
Procedure: