Babel provides a unified interface for creation of multilingual documents. Unfortunately no Indic languages are currently supported, so typesetting in Indic languages is based on specialised packages. The most advanced of these is Velthuis Devanāgar̄ı for TEX, because it already provides Hindi values for language-dependent strings as well as a macro for a European-style date. A language definiti...

A discussion of Jean Michel Delire’s Les mathématiques de l’autel védique. Le Baudhāyana Śulbasūtra et son commentaire Śulbadīpikā. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Satyanad Kichenassamy Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37625/28621 Corresponding Author: KichenassamyUniversity Reims Champagne–ArdenneE-Mail: satyanad.kichenassamy@...

Euphonic conjunctions (sandhis) form a very important aspect of Sanskrit morphology and phonology. The traditional and modern methods of studying about euphonic conjunctions in Sanskrit follow different methodologies. The former involves a rigorous study of the Pāṇinian system embodied in Pāṇini’s Āṣtādhyāyī, while the latter usually involves the study of a few important sandhi rules with the u...

In the middle of the third century BCE – some 2250 years ago – the Mauryan emperor Aśoka is thought to have directed the creation of the Brahmi script. Brahmi was used in all parts of India to write Prakrit and Sanskrit (except for the north-western regions where Kharoshthi was used to write Prakrit and Gandhari, and occasionally Sanskrit). Brahmi shows all the features found in the scripts des...

We present the first steps towards a treebank of Sanskrit within the Universal Dependencies framework. Our dataset is tiny at the moment, consisting of less than 200 sentences—a result of a summer internship project. Nevertheless, this seems to be, to the best of our knowledge, the first publicly available piece of syntactically annotated Sanskrit text. We also present a parsing experiment, wit...

Document segmentation is one of the critical phases in machine recognition of any language. Correct segmentation of individual symbols decides the accuracy of character recognition technique. It is used to decompose image of a sequence of characters into sub images of individual symbols by segmenting lines and words. Devnagari is the most popular script in India. It is used for writing Hindi, M...

This paper re-examines the widely held belief that the formalism underlying the rule system propounded by the ancient Indian grammarian, Pān. ini (ca. 450–350 BCE), either anticipates or converges upon the same expressive power found in finite state control systems or the context-free languages that are used in programming language theory and computational linguistics. While there is indeed a s...

In this paper an attempt is made to study the problem of overgeneration that is caused by the application of the system of P ān. ini The system of P ān. ini is made up of certain rules stated by him and his commentators namely, Kātyāyana and Patañjali. These rules are supposed to produce the forms that are used in the language, i.e. Sanskrit. However, sometimes the technical application of thes...

In Pān. ini’s grammar of Sanskrit one finds the Śivasūtras, a table which defines the natural classes of phonological segments in Sanskrit by intervals. We present a formal argument which shows that, using his representation method, Pān. ini’s way of ordering the phonological segments to represent the natural classes is optimal. The argument is based on a strictly set-theoretical point of view ...