Vande Mataram Library

By Prashant Tiwari

The Vision

To create the best technical resources for studying, learning, discussing and promoting Sanskrit.

The Problem

• Scattered resources
• Less than great user experience
• Accessibility across multiple platforms
• Personalisation

The Solution

• In-depth analysis and inspired translations
• Intuitive organisation
• Fluid and modern user experience and design
• Tailored to each individual user
• Comprehensive search
• Promote sharing and collaboration
• Provide the best solution for each platform

Analysis & Translation

• Record the roots, prefixes, suffixes, POS of each word
• Record the textual and metrical analyses of each verse
• Cross-reference and tag related documents
• Evolve a peer-review system to establish the most authentic and reliable translations

Organisation

vandemataramlibrary.org
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• /mahabharata
• /mahabharata/6
• /mahabharata/6/24
• /mahabharata/6/24#p2
• /mahabharata/6/24#p2-3,11-53,55-72

On Learning Sanskrit

I learnt Sanskrit by reading the Naladamayanti episode in the Mahabharat ... with minute care several times.
 

- Sri Aurobindo

Personalisation

• Save progress, favourites, bookmarks
• Create and share collections around themes or episodes
• Compile into downloadable e-books
• Order a custom printed book

Search

• Search the original texts
• Search by metadata (e.g. the epoch, the Rishi, devatā, chhanda)
• Search by relevance (tags, cross-references)

Collaboration

• Start and manage theme-based blogs
• Collaborate on curated collections
• Automatically reference the entire corpus from all these tools

Advanced Computing

• Apply Deep Language Understanding for automation, and to surface interesting patterns of word usage throughout history
• Study the evolution of root sounds and their metamorphosis into word families as received today

Open source

github.com/vandemataramlib

Thank you

prashaantt@gmail.com