Some sanskrit software

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Dear list members,

 

I've noticed that the following sanskrit is now available.

 

1. The ITRANSLATOR utility from the Omkarananda ashram has now been upgraded

to work on windows 2000 and windows xp. The new version is called

ITRANSLATOR99. For those who have never used this. It is a very

user-friendly utility to type in (or paste) sanskrit in ITRANS coding and

converts it simultaneously to devanagari and transliteration.

It uses the fonts (supplied by them) sanskrit99 or ancientsanskrit99 for

devanagari and URW Palladio for transliteration. It can be downloaded from

http://www.omkarananda-ashram.org/ .

 

2. I've just discovered the downloadable front-end interface to the

University of Cologne on-line Monier-Williams dictionary by Luis Bontes

downlaodable from http://members.ams.chello.nl/l.bontes/ . Since with this

utility the dictionary files reside on your computer instead of on the web

it is lightning fast and the Version 1.5 beta (also downlaodable from there)

allows you to specify either left, right, middle or all for your input

string. So you can specify the start of a word only, or more impressively

if you specify "middle" or "right" you can leave off the prefixes from a

root or stem and get all the words with the various prefixes for that root

or stem. The output is also formatted in a very user-friendly manner. VERY

IMPRESSIVE.

 

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

 

 

 

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