Persian Astronomy in Sanskrit

introduction of persian astronomy into india

the islamic astronomy including the persian astronomy was thoroughly introduced into india from the 14th century ad or so. firstly, the astrolabe was introduced at the time of f?r?z sh?h tughluk?, and a sanskrit work entitled yantra-r?ja (1370 ad) was composed by mahendra s?ri. at that time, some sanskrit astronomical (or astrological) works were also translated into persian. the astrolabe beca...

Anaphors in Sanskrit

Research in building robulst NLP systems with ambiguity resolution techniques has gained momentum in recent years. In particular, the anaphora resolution initiatives have reached unpreceented heights in last 10 years or so. Mitkov et. al (2001) have reported both rule based knowledge based approaches and machine learning based ‘knowledge poor’ approaches in an ACL issue devoted to this subject....

Inference in Sanskrit

This conference is analogous to the consultation of philosophers and cognitive psychologists by computer scientists in the beginnings of AI. Western psychology and philosophy is quite different from the Indo-Aryan tradition: the former has its basis in Aristotelian logic and the scientific method, whereas the latter is also based on introspection and internal experience Nevertheless, both these...

Sanskrit Segmentation

The Death of Sanskrit*

In the age of Hindu identity politics (Hindutva) inaugurated in the 1990s by the ascendancy of the Indian People’s Party (Bharatiya Janata Party) and its ideological auxiliary, the World Hindu Council (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Indian cultural and religious nationalism has been promulgating ever more distorted images of India’s past. Few things are as central to this revisionism as Sanskrit, the ...