Sanskrit: Selected Resources

• Course Documents
• Devanāgarī
• Sanskrit
• Academic Links
• About

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Course Documents

•  Download the Devanāgarī script  (324 KB) (requires Adobe Reader)
•  Download the scheme of transliteration (308 KB)
•  Download an enlarged, legible copy of Exercise VII from Page 44 of the Perry Sanskrit Primer (9.6 MB)
•  Download a list of the most common ligatures (2.5 MB)

Devanāgarī

• Get an interactive tutorial with animation and sound files for learning the Devanāgarī script. (Created for the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) (requires Adobe Flash Player)
  
  
• Get an animation illustrating the stroking sequence for forming characters (aksharas) in the Devanāgarī script. (Created for the Acharya website at the Indian Institute for Technology Madras) Note: This animation is better viewed on a PC.
• Get a graphic file showing the Devanāgarī script, including vowel marks. Source: Ukindia.com
• Get a graphic file showing consonants categorized by the location in the mouth in which they are formed. Also includes semi-vowels, sibilants, and aspirate. Source: Discover Sanskrit
• Get a graphic file showing vowels in full and abbreviated form. Source: Discover Sanskrit

Sanskrit

•  (5.4 MB) A Sanskrit Primer by Edward Delavan Perry. Get the digitized book from Google Book Search, or download the primer as a PDF 
• Get the full text (full view) of digitized books related to the Sanskrit language through Google Book Search. Just enter “Sanskrit” in the search box and select “Search Books.” Through its Library Program, Google plans to digitize 10 million books in the libraries of major universities, including Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Columbia, and Oxford, among others.
• Online Sanskrit class with a good introduction to the Devanāgarī script
  http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/off-line.php
• Sanskrit lessons
  http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zsan01.htm
• Sanskrit flashcards
  •  (72 KB) Download flashcards of the Devanāgarī script, including common ligatures
  •  (324 KB) Download 100 Sanskrit vocabulary flashcards
  •  (924 KB) Download 3,200 Sanskrit vocabulary flashcards
• Sanskrit Academy to promote Sanskrit language and culture
  http://samskrtam.org/
• Devanāgarī fonts
  http://www.kiranfont.com. The premium fonts work on both the Mac and PC platforms.
• Gentium fonts with unicode characters needed to make diacritical marks on transliterations
  http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=gentium_download
• Sanskrit & Sánscrito. Helpful information on Sandhi
  http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar
• Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (from Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary)
  http://webapps.uni-koeln.de/tamil/
• Sanskrit Library providing access to digitized primary texts in Sanskrit. Registration is required, but it is free.
  http://sanskritlibrary.org/
• Samskrita Bharati is an organization “working for bringing back Sanskrit to daily life.”
  http://samskrita-bharati.org/newsite/index.php

Academic Links

• Columbia University
  Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
• Harvard University
  Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
• McGill University
  Faculty of Religious Studies
• University of California, Berkley
  Sanskrit Courses
• University of Virginia
  Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Sanskrit Courses

About

The goal of this website is to support students enrolled in Professor Christopher Key Chapple's Elementary and Intermediate Sanskrit courses, offered through Loyola Marymount University Extension.