The Sanskrit Library
The Sanskrit Library is dedicated to facilitating philological research and education in Vedic and Classical Sanskrit language and literature by documenting, collecting, preserving, and publishing oral, written, and printed texts in digital form, and by developing innovative research and educational tools. Current research involves linguistic issues in encoding, computational phonology and morphology, OCR for Indic scripts, and markup of digitized Sanskrit lexica.
International Digital Sanskrit Library Integration
The International Digital Sanskrit Library Integration (IDSLI) project integrates currently independent projects to create Sanskrit digital archives, digital lexica, and linguistic software; and to establish text-encoding standards, enhance ancient and medieval manuscript access, and develop OCR technology, display software, and Unicode-compliant text-editing software for Devanagari text. The Principal Investigators are Peter M. Scharf (Sanskrit Library Director) and Malcolm D. Hyman (co-PI; Sanskrit Library Resident Linguist). Our cooperation partners include: CEDAR (Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition, University of Buffalo; PI: Venugopal Govindaraju), TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main; director: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert), and CDSL (Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, Universität zu Köln; director: Dr. Thomas Malten).
This web site contains material based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant no. 0535207. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Holdings
The Sanskrit Library currently contains two independent study Sanskrit readers, Sanskrit grammatical literature, dynamic software for nominal and verbal inflectional morphology, a digital version of W. D. Whitney’s The Roots, Verb-Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, and instructional materials. New content will appear regularly.
Earlier Support
Previous projects were produced with the support of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning, the Das Educational Foundation, and the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University.