We present the architectural design rationale of a Sanskrit computational linguistics platform, where the lexical database has a central role. We explain the structuring requirements issued from the interlinking of grammatical tools through its hypertext rendition.

This study traces the progressively evolving concepts of blood circulation. Evidences from medical and non-medical Sanskrit literature have been presented to high the fact that the Ayurvedic concepts of physiology are time tested.

A synopsis of the Sanskrit text, Abhinava Chintamani is presented in this paper. Attention is paid to highlight the novel features of this text composed in 18(th) Century A. D. by Mahamati Cakrapani Das of Orissa.

With advances in the field of digitization of printed documents and several mass digitization projects underway, information retrieval and document search have emerged as key research areas. However, most of the current work in these areas is limited to English and a few oriental languages. The lack of efficient solutions for Indic scripts and languages such as Sanskrit has hampered information...

In his grammar of ancient Sanskrit, Pān. ini represents the phonological classes as intervals of a list. This representation method and especially the actual list constructed by Pān. ini, which is called the Śivasūtras, earns universal admiration. The legend says that god Śiva revealed the Śivasūtras to Pān. ini in order to let him start developing his grammar of Sanskrit. A question still disc...

We present in this paper recent progress in Sanskrit computational linguistics. We propose a solution to the tagging of verb phrases which correctly handles the non-associativity of external sandhi arising from the treatment of preverb ā. This involves a notion of phantom phoneme. We give exemples of execution of a computer tagger designed accordingly, which handles verb phrases as well as noun...

In the history of exchanges between Islamicate and Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu (c. early 1630s), composed at court Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1628─58), is among earliest examples a Persian astronomical text translated into Sanskrit. an earlier study, Misra (2021) described sociohistorical context in which Nityānanda Mullā Farīd's Zīj-i Jahānī 1629/30) Sanskrit, oth...