A Sanskrit list

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> > > Are there any discussion lists which carry on business in

> Sanskrit?

> >

> > At least in the Nagari script, this cannot be done. That's

> > why no hindi and sanskrit lists like the tamil e-lists.

 

The subhaashitas group uses Sanskrit in Devanagari. It uses Shivaji01

font (http://www.narayanpur-pune.com/fonts.htm).

 

subhaashitas/

 

Yashwant

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INDOLOGY, "ymalaiya" <ymalaiya> wrote:

 

I checked out this group. Nice Subhasita's are posted on a regular

basis. No discussion ... just these posts. Only moderators may post.

It is in that sense not a discussion forum but a kind of bulletin

board for subhasita's. Nevertheless it was nice to see such a list.

 

The Tamil groups on the other hand carry out genuine discussion even

if many of the lists are ideologically rather motivated. In terms of

discussion style and content, the groups have evolved over the years

even if many posters are rather prolix and are not very structured

in their communications. They do seem to be on their pet soapboxes

most of the time. But still the groups are there and they discuss, in

Tamil, topics of interest to Tamils everywhere.

 

What is more notable however about the use of Tamil on the Net is the

amount of very reliable text databases that you have available as

freeware. Eventhough they are not searchable at the moment the text

is usually highly reliable. There are hardly any typo's in most

texts. These text databases have been created and proof read by a

team of volunteers and that is remarkable. These texts are not

confined to classics, kavya's etc . They include grammatical texts,

commentaries, inscriptions, meykirti's (prasasti's) and modern works

etc

 

This whole endeavor has been brought together thru a Project Madurai

www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/ which is the brainchild of a Dr

Kalyanasundaram of Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

In this respect, Tamil is certainly way ahead of other Indian

languages.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Lakshmi Srinivas

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NG>At least in the Nagari script, this cannot be done. That's

>why no hindi and sanskrit lists like the tamil e-lists.

>Taking a look at the slots occupied by Tamil characters

>in TSCII 1.7 encoding for Tamil,

>tsciicharset17_a.gif

>(The sanskrit characters are just too many, and will

>run out of the slots for 8-bit encoding).

 

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However the list does illustrate that technically Sanskrit in

Devanagari can be used for a list. Note that it requires

permitting attachments, thus Devanagari can not be used postings in

this group.

 

Yashwant

>>>

 

Yes, in the future encodings possibly Nagari scripts will

be used in practical e-lists. 8-bit encoding Tamil

fonts such as given in the above URL is an impossibility

for having all the letters and conjuncts of Sanskrit/Hindi

in Nagari. With sophisticated codes running in the background,

and Unicode implementation, and Windows 2000 or later versions.

 

The Grantha letters for Sanskrit can also be

tried in the 16 bit or 32 bit encodings.

Grantha character writing of Sanskrit from Pallava

& Telugu/Kannada regions. Grantha script is the mother

of all South East Asian scripts.

 

All the ligature combos of the Nagari are given in

Section 5.8, running into several pages (p. 21-26):

http://home.t-online.de/home/ulrich.stiehl/itmanual.pdf

 

Hopefully, in the Unicode impletation with 16 or 32 bit

encodings, with the touch of a button, we can go

from roman <-> grantha <-> nagari.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan