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Information about Tirupati Vidyapeetha's Work on Creating

Electronic Sanskrit Library

 

K.V.Ramakrishnamacharyulu <kvrk

 

Dear friends,

 

Happy new year. As per the directions of Sri Vineet chaitanyaji I am

giving the information about our Vidyapeetha 's work on creating

Electronic library of Sanskrit works. Rastriya sanskrit vidyapeetha

established by the govt. of India in 1962 as an autonomous

Institution is now working as a deemed University under UGC. It has

so many projects. For example

 

(1)Agama kosa project- A project to bring an encyclopedia of Agama

Literature (Temle culture).

(2) Recording of Oral Sastra Tradition = recorded more than 600

hours in Mimamsa and Nyaya (a Project of Ford Foundation)

(3) Vedas Tape recording Project - in coloberation with TTD etc.

 

In Sanskrit year the Vidyapeetha proposed a Project called SANSK_NET

the goal of which is to make available every thing in sanskrit either

in printed form or in manuscripts in electronic form and to make

available on internet. The aim of the project is not only just to

make available the Texts but also to provide tools for analysis

search etc.,. For this project Tirupati Vidyapeetha is made as nodal

centre and CDAC Bangalore is choosen as a centre to give technical

support. There are 5 participating centres which will create data in

electronic form.

 

The centres are -

(1) Acadamy sanskrit research, Melkote

(2) Ahobilamutt Sanskrit collage, Madhurantakam

(3) Purnaprajna sansodhana mandiram,Bangalore

(4)Chinmaya International foundation, kerala

(5) CDAC, Bangalore.

 

The Indian heritage group headed by Sri P.Ramanujam is made incharge

to give technical support for this project. As a mark of beginning

the project has taken to create electronic texts with padacceda and

samasa markings of the following.

(1) All vedas

(2) All philosophical works of Sankara,Ramanuja, amd Madhvacarya.

(3) Siddhantakoumudi

(4) Grhyasutras

(5) Ramayana

(6) Main Upanishads

and some Literature.

It is also decided to bring bibliogrophys for different sastras and

to scan the manuscripts available in these centres and make them

available on CDs. Govt. has sanctioned grant for this project for

one year only and the vidyapeetha has requested the Govt., to

continue its financial support till the goal is acheived completely.

But every thing depends upon the financial support. CDAC Bangalore

is preparing Mahabharata in electronic form with added advantages

like search padacceda samasa tagging etc. on the available Poona

Text. This is also a Govt. project. The vidyapeetha has much

material of its own like recorded tapes of oral sastras, agamakosa

etc..and wants to make it available on net.Shortly vidyapeetha will

have its own web cite where the material will be available.

 

If any individual or institution is interested to collaborate with

the vidyapeetha providing the texts in electronic form, providing

OCRs or such useful tools, and finances the vidyapeetha has no

reservations to collaborate. For further details you may contact

the Vice Chancellor of the vidyapeetha and Sri P.Ramanujam. The

email address of vidyapeetha vc

"rsvpvc and rsvp"

Ramanujam's email address is "rama

You can also contact the chancellor of the Vidyapeeta

"Dr.V.R.Panchamukhi," on email at the following address -

"risnodec"

You can mentiom my name while contacting the above persons if it is

felt needed. If any more information is required or any help

welcome.

 

with regards,

 

Prof.K.V.R.krishnamacharya,

Prof. on Deputation,

LTRC., IIIT., Hyderabad.

Phone ® 040-3010897 (o) 040-3001412

email kvrk