Sanskrit & English Keyboard

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Every now and then somebody asks me about programs which will enable

them to type on their regular keyboard and wind up with Sanskrit,

either in Roman letters, like the ones you are reading, or in

Devanagari, the alphabet in which Sanskrit is usually written these

days.

 

Today I received an email from Shashi who has developed a web-based

tool for this. You need to download some fonts and you need to learn

Itrans encoding but, if you already know Sanskrit alphabet, that

won't be hard. Please see his website and links at

 

http://shashi.greatindiaonline.com/

 

If you happen to be fond of Lord Shiva, he has a link from there to a

page explaining many of the details about how Shiva is represented.

 

Another downloadable Sanskrit program for PC can be found at the

Omkarananda Ashram site. I think it is still http://omkarananada-

ashram.org but I'll double check.

 

Aikya

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--- "Aikya Param <aikya" <aikya

wrote:

> Every now and then somebody asks me about programs

> which will enable

> them to type on their regular keyboard and wind up

> with Sanskrit,

> either in Roman letters, like the ones you are

> reading, or in

> Devanagari, the alphabet in which Sanskrit is

> usually written these

> days.

>

 

A Devanagari font that I recommend is "Shusha",

downloadable free from

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/9988/

 

This site also has fonts for Gujarati, Punjabi and

Bengali, as well as the standard devanagari script

used for Sanskrit and Hindi (and Nepali too, no?)

 

I've used the Shusha font on my Sanskrit page

http://webhome.idirect.com/~aum108/sanskrit.html

 

 

Keval

 

 

 

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