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 %8D 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 project of Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President of 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 Jain scriptures, Jain manuscripts, Jain dictionary, Jain encyclopedia, Jain articles, Jain magazines, ancient and contemporary Jain books in English, Hindi, Gujarati, and other languages. It contains Shvetämbar Ägams, Digambar Shästras, Four Anuyogas, Commentary literature, Präkrit and Samskrit literature, ancient and modern literature representing all aspects of Jainism. It also includes the literature of various Jain sects. Catalogues of Jain manuscripts of various Jain libraries add to the diversity of this collection. • Pravin K Shah, Vice President Jain Education International, 509 Carriage Woods Circle, Raleigh, NC 27607 USA e-mail : [email protected] call +1-919-859-4994 FREE International E – Library Contents • 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