SanskritaPradipika
SanskritaPradipika
01/06/2004 09:17 AM
SanskritaPradipika - Freely Downloadable e-Tutor for the
Sanskrit Language
http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/
The following description is given at the site's "About"
directory by Sudhir Kaicker:
SanskritaPradipika, 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 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 Windows 98. 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 a collaboration would be most
welcome. Four chapters and a section on diacritics are being offered
at this time. Other chapters will shortly be made available.
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