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Tuesday, January 06, 2004  

SanskritaPradipika - Freely Downloadable e-Tutor for the Sanskrit Language
http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/

The following description is given at the site's "About" directory by Sudhir Kaicker:

SanskritaPradipika, a freely downloadable e-tutor for the Sanskrit language, is intended to help English-speaking people learn Sanskrit, as well as the Devanagari script in which the language is written today. The medium of discourse is English, but will be gratified if the English text is translated to other European and Asian languages, so that the material becomes available to as large a number of aspirants as possible.

The tutor has been written in the Java programming language. In principle, this is supposed to ensure that the package will run without problems on any sort of computer that can be connected to the Internet. The fact is, though, that SanskritaPradipika has been created on ancient IBM-compatibles powered by Intel Pentium II chips, running Windows 98. Much testing therefore needs to be done before the software can certifiably be said to be platform independent, and to run without error on other types of computer, such as an Apple, or a Sun Workstation. In this area too a collaboration would be most welcome. Four chapters and a section on diacritics are being offered at this time. Other chapters will shortly be made available.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 8:54 AM
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