The Consortium of 7 institutes working on 'Development of Sanskrit computational toolkit and SanskritHindi Machine Translation system' is engaged in developing various computational tools for Sanskrit analysis which assist a reader in understanding Sanskrit texts.
Reading and understanding a Sanskrit Text involves following steps.
- padaccheda
- samasta-pada-paricaya
- Sabda-viSleshaNa
- aakaamkshaa
- anvaya
A reader for Sankshepa RaamaayaNam with hindi and English translation is now available in e-book format which allows a reader to navigate through all the above steps and understand the text in a better way.
In future it is possible to develop similar readers semi-automatically with the help of following tools. These tools are being developed by the Sanskrit Consortium with financial support from TDIL programme, DIT, Govt. of India.
- A simple tool for "transliteration" is available.
- The Morphological Generator shows the subantas and tingantas (inflectional forms of a noun or a verb). It also handles derivational morphology showing kridanta and taddhita forms.
- Various possible Sabda-viSleshaNas of a Sanskrit word can be obtained from the Morphological Analyzer.
- We also provide a tool "sandhi" to join two Sanskrit words following the Paninian sutras.
- Another tool sandhi splitter shows all possible splittings of a given Sanskrit string.
