A rare Sanskrit dictionary (Sanskrit to Telugu), hand-written in Telugu script on over 4 lakh pages of manuscript paper single-handedly by Paravasthu Rangacharyulu more than a century ago ...

The UB researchers happen to share not only expertise in machine-print and handwriting recognition, but also a rare passion for -- and fluency in -- Sanskrit and other Indian languages. Their project, ...

The researchers happen to share not only expertise in machine-print and handwriting recognition, but also a rare passion for—and fluency in—Sanskrit and other Indian languages. Their project, funded ...

Filip Vezdin, a Croatian missionary and scholar, pioneered Sanskrit studies in Europe. His printed grammar, cultural analyses ...

But how will the might of Google's technology fare when confronted with handwritten Sanskrit? Making an archive like this useful to scholars will involve using optical character recognition to ...

Joshi said: "The college has a priceless collection of centuries-old Sanskrit books and nearly 9 million handwritten Sanskrit scriptoriums waiting to be digitised." The archive includes 3,000 ...

Over a century-old handwritten Shrimad Bhagvad, one of the most important Hindu texts, would have been lost to scrap dealers had Dhar's Dev family not visited Indore Sanskrit College in 2005.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has claimed that Sanskrit is a ‘scientific’ language, and that even NASA has acknowledged it as such. Gupta made the remark addressing the closing ceremony of ...

India's new government focus on Sanskrit has sparked a fresh debate over the role language plays in the lives of the country's religious and linguistic minorities. Inside a brightly lit classroom ...

A Sanskrit grammatical problem which has perplexed scholars since the 5th Century BC has been solved by a University of Cambridge PhD student. Rishi Rajpopat, 27, decoded a rule taught by Panini ...

Will Germans be the eventual custodians of Sanskrit, its rich heritage and culture? If the demand for Sanskrit and Indology courses in Germany is any indication, that’s what the future looks like.