08 Jun 2006

SanskritaPradipika - a Sanskrit e-Tutor
Sudhir Kaicker, New Delhi, India
Self-description: "SanskritaPradipika [a little lamp for Sanskrit], a freely downloadable e-tutor for the Sanskrit language, is intended to help English-speaking people learn Sanskrit, as well as the Devanagari script in which the language is written today. The medium of discourse is English, but I will be gratified if the English text is translated to other European and Asian languages, so that the material becomes available to as large a number of aspirants as possible.
The tutor has been written in the Java programming language. In principle, this is supposed to ensure that the package will run without problems on any sort of computer that can be connected to the Internet. The fact is, though, that SanskritaPradipika has been created on ancient IBM-compatibles powered by Intel Pentium II chips, running WindowsXP. Much testing therefore needs to be done before the software can certifiably be said to be platform independent, and to run without error on other types of computer, such as an Apple, or a Sun Workstation. In this area too collaboration would be most welcome.
Seven chapters and a section on diacritics are being offered at this time. Other chapters will shortly be made available. If you have an IBM or compatible PC running some version of Windows, click the Download button to install both the JRE as well as SanskritaPradipika. [...] However since the size of the software is large (24 MB), and downloads may sometimes [be lengthy....] we do offer to mail, at the cost of the recipient, a CD for use on Intel/Windows platforms to most destinations worldwide. For more information, or to send your comments, please write to: sudhir_kaicker--at--hotmail.com"
Chapters of the e-tutor: * Introduction; * Vovels; *Consonants; * Conjuncts; * Word Building; * Sandhi; * The Sanscrit Verbs; * Declensions; * Special Cases; * Simple Sentences; * Credits;
URL http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
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