Karnataka Samskrit University

Pampamahakavi Road, Chamarajpet, Bangalore - 560018

Development of E – Content by the University

Prof. Padmashekhar Prof. M K Sridhar
Vice Chancellor IT Team Registrar
Sri Paritosh das Vidwan Udayana Hegde
IT Nodal Officer IT Co ordinator

Sri Venkatesh G H Smt Chandana Girish Hegde Sri Pavankumar B

System Analyst Data Entry Operator Support Staff
 Executive Summary
• Digitization of the Karnataka Samskrit University Library.

• The books which have already been scanned by DLI (Digital Library of India) will

not be scanned again unless the scan quality is poor and the downloaded PDF are

unreadable.

• Many images of the scanned books are of low quality and those books will be re-

scanned at 300 DPI standard archival resolution.

• Digitization is a slow and mechanical process and becomes slower for libraries that

have old, brittle and tattered books. Not damaging the original in any way and not

re-scanning which has already been scanned will be the top priority.

• The kind support and patronage of the Govt. of Karnataka to make Universal

knowledge accessible to all the faculty and students of the Karnataka Samskrit

University and the general public is needed

• Ganaka Ashtadhyayi – H. H. Dr. Shivamurthy
Shivacharaya Swamiji, Siregere – 1994
• Amarakosha – Sanskrit Dictionary – Dr. V. Jagadish, IIT,
Kanpur, 1990
• The Bhagavadgita As It Is - Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada’s original authorized
1972, Macmillan edition.
Development of E – Content
Executive Summary – Phase 1
Process Number

Number of Scanned images: 15,628

(Initiative by Sri Ajit Gargeshwari, Software Engineer)

Number of Books 112

Number of Images that will be scanned or under the 20,000

process of scanning

Estimated number of Books or Manuscripts 114

E Content already available 12,000 books

(private collection)
 Samskrit Books
at
Maharaja Sanskrit College, Mysuru
and
Sri Chamarajendra Sanskrit College, Bengaluru
• Maharaja Samskrit College – 6,000 books and hundreds of Palm leaf
Manuscripts.
• Computer Data Entry – 3,500 completed by Vidushi Tejaswini – Research
Assistant, KSU.
• Chamarajendra Samskrit College, Bengaluru – 10,000 books and a few
Palm leaf manuscripts.
• Around 5,000 books entered.
• Apart from this, Academy of Sanskrit Research, Melukote – 10,000
Manuscripts preserved very well.
 Samskrit Resources on Web
(Linked to the University Website)
 Samskrit Documents site -http://sanskritdocuments.org/
 Samskrit Wikibooks -
http://sa.wikibooks.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4
%AF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5
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 Samskrit fonts and Sanskrit texts -http://sanskritweb.net/

 Samskrit E books -http://sanskritebooks.org/
 Translations of Samskrit Classics -http://www.giirvaani.net/
 Samskrit texts and stotras (Eulogims) -http://sanskrit.safire.com/
 Samskrit Wikipedia -
http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%8D
%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0%E
0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D
 Samskrit Resources on Web
(Linked to the University Website)
 Learn Sanskrit from home -http://www.sanskritfromhome.in/
 Sudharma, Samskrit daily newspaper -
http://sudharma.epapertoday.com/
 Sambhashana Sandesha, Samskrit monthly magazine -
www.sambhashanasandesha.in/
 Monier Williams Online dictionary -http://www.sanskrit-
lexicon.uni-koeln.de/monier/
 V. S. Apte Samskrit Dictionary -
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~tjun/sktdic/
 Samskrit Dictionary for spoken Sanskrit -
http://spokensanskrit.de/
 Samskrit Documents -http://www.tinyurl.com/samskritam/
 Rashtriya Samskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati -
http://www.wilbourhall.org/sansknet/
 Samskrit Resources on Web
(Linked to the University Website)
 The Free Indological Collection -
http://archive.org/details/freeindological
 The Computational Linguistics R&D -
http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/index.jsp
 Advaita Sharada Project -http://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/
 Mahabharata Resources -http://mahabharata-resources.org/
 Gita Supersite -http://www.gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in/
 Samskrit Books -
https://www.scribd.com/collections/3259486/Sanskrit-Books
 Samskrit Tutorials -http://samskrittutorial.in/
 Samskrit Grammar -http://learnsanskrit.org/grammar
 RASHTRIYA SAMSKRIT SANSTHAN -
http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/ebook.htm
 SARIT -http://data.stonesutras.org/exist/apps/sarit/works/
 Samskrit Resources on Web
(Linked to the University Website)
 Vyoma Linguistic Labs Foundation -http://www.vyomalabs.in
 Acharya Multilingual Computing for literacy Education -
http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/sanskrit/tutor.php
 Shri Chitrapur Math -
http://www.chitrapurmath.net/sanskrit/sanskrit_Iesson.asp
 AVG-Samskrit -http://avg-sanskrit.org/about/
 Learning Sanskrit -https://slabhyankar.wordpress.com/
 CBSE Samskrit -http://cbsesanskrit.com/
 Samskrit World -http://www.sanskritworld.in/
 Samskrita Vyakaranam -
https://sites.google.com/site/samskritavyakaranam/
 Sri Surasaraswathi Sabha -http://www.surasaraswathisabha.org/
 The Samskrit Library -http://sanskritlibrary.org
 Sanskrit groups, communities and blogs.
(Linked to the University Website)
 Bharatiya Vidvat Parishat -
http://groups.google.com/group/bvparishat/
 Panini group -http://groups.google.com/group/panini2008/
 Samskrit group -http://groups.google.com/group/samskrita/
 Samskrit blog -http://samskrtam.wordpress.com/
 E -Books/Encyclopedias in India
• Encyclopedia of Hinduism, 1st ed., 2012, is a
comprehensive, multi-volume, English language
encyclopedia of Hinduism,It is a 7,184 page, 11-volume
(10,000 pictures) publication with full-color illustrations
of temples, places, thinkers, rituals and festivals.
Encyclopedia of Hinduism is an inspiration and dream
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Parmarth Niketan, Hrishikesh and India Heritage
Research Foundation, Chennai. Under preparation for 25
years, it has been edited by Dr. K. L. Seshagiri Rao,
Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, USA with contribution from over 500 scholars
all over the world.
• Prof. M. K. Sridhar – One of the International Editors
(2004 -2006)
 Jain E -Books
• The Jain E -Library website is an online collection of
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• Harvard oriental Series(1891)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Oriental_Series
• 1891 by Charles Rockwell Lanman and Henry Clarke Warren.
Lanman - Inaugural editor (1891-1934) for the first 37
volumes. First Book edited – Jatakamala (1891). Other editors
of the series include Walter Eugene Clark (1934-1950,
volumes 38-44), Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls (1950-1983,
volumes 45-48) and Gary Tubb (1983-1990, volume 49). 73rd
Volume is being published now by Patrick Olivelle on Vishnu
Smriti (2009).
• Oxford University – Bodleian Library, Indian Institute Reading
Room – Several books on Oriental Studies.
• Minoru Hara – Kyoto University, Japan – The Mahabharata E -
book