Sanskrit Studies and Preservation of Sanskrit Palm・leaf Manuscripts in China

Sanskrit Segmentation

Sanskrit and Computational Linguistics

The importance of ashtādhyaȳı is three fold. The first one, as is well known, as an almost exhaustive grammar for any natural language with meticulous details yet small enough to memorize. Though ashtādhyāȳı is written to describe the then prevalent Sanskrit language, it provides a grammatical framework which is general enough to analyse other languages as well. This makes the study of ashtādhy...

Anaphors in Sanskrit

Research in building robulst NLP systems with ambiguity resolution techniques has gained momentum in recent years. In particular, the anaphora resolution initiatives have reached unpreceented heights in last 10 years or so. Mitkov et. al (2001) have reported both rule based knowledge based approaches and machine learning based ‘knowledge poor’ approaches in an ACL issue devoted to this subject....

Inference in Sanskrit

This conference is analogous to the consultation of philosophers and cognitive psychologists by computer scientists in the beginnings of AI. Western psychology and philosophy is quite different from the Indo-Aryan tradition: the former has its basis in Aristotelian logic and the scientific method, whereas the latter is also based on introspection and internal experience Nevertheless, both these...

The Death of Sanskrit*

In the age of Hindu identity politics (Hindutva) inaugurated in the 1990s by the ascendancy of the Indian People’s Party (Bharatiya Janata Party) and its ideological auxiliary, the World Hindu Council (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Indian cultural and religious nationalism has been promulgating ever more distorted images of India’s past. Few things are as central to this revisionism as Sanskrit, the ...