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[edit] Shastra seva

Questions:

  • What is that?
  • Who can contribute?

[edit] Sanskrit

Hopefully some day I would be able to author pages in saMskrit using devanagari script

[edit] Processing

Questions:

  • What is the purpose of processing texts?
  • What result - output would come out?
  • What and why should be processed?
  • What can be automated?
  • How parser should be defined (on which basis)?
  • What can be parsed?
  • Which programming language can be used?
  • Can be Natural Language Toolkit http://nltk.sourceforge.net/ used for sanskrit texts processing?

[edit] Encoding

[edit] Groups of characters

  1. Phonetical groups of :
    1. Phonetical groups define aksharas code
    2. Aksharas can be combined according to the groups

कण्ठ तालव्य ओष्ठ्य दन्त्य कण््ठतलव्य कण््ठोष्ठ्य


  1. Sandhi rules:

--id 08:45, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Devanagari Varnamala

Image: Devanagari-chart.GIF

is taken from http://sanskrit.gde.to/learning_tutorial_wikner/wikner.ps

[edit] Problems

My personal problem is a lack of knowledge, particularly poor knowledge of the sanskrit. However I give it a try.

[edit] Tools

  • Yudit - Unicode editor + conversion utilities

[edit] Scripts

These script(s) require Python 2.3.* or newer. See python.org in case you don't have one

[edit] Varnamala classifier

Try to bind svara and vya~Njana to their groups

Varnamala.txt


the idea behind this is to create system for encoding sanskrit based on natural phonetical principle, the idea was given by Sripad B.V. Narasimha Maharaj.

[edit] To do: