KATHMANDU: Purna Prasad Mishra 'Swami Keshabananda Giri' has published the world’s largest Sanskrit-Nepali e-dictionary in a form of android application. The dictionary contains 400,000 words in ...

What does it take to concise an ancient language into a modern dictionary? Wknd sits down with Shashi Bala, who is heading a unique effort. Shashi Bala, 65, has been steeped in Sanskrit for decades, ...

Does India really have >more Sanskrit-speakers than English-speakers? No, absolutely not. Anecdotally, we’d all agree that the last ten years are likely to have seen a huge jump in the number of ...

Kishore M Paknikar is a former director of Agharkar Research Institute (DST, Govt of India), Pune. And a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Sanskrit, the ancient ...

In this article, the politics of language will be recalled. The books written in Hindi and Sanskrit are very difficult to sell. This is also the destiny of very popular Hindi and Sanskrit writers. Why ...

Sanskrit means ‘perfectly made’. It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded ...

Let us begin with The Bhagavad Gita translation first. It is a verse-by-verse translation, with the Sanskrit shlokas on one page and the English translation on the facing page. There is no ...

Sanskrit felt like a return to her roots, sparking a further desire to learn more of the beautiful, complex words she recalled from childhood, and her yoga studies. There is an incredible number of ...