Other Resources

This page will provide links to other resources for the study of Sanskrit.

Online Dictionaries

The University of Cologne has developed many digital Sanskrit lexicons, which can be found at: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries. A few of the specific dictionaries they provide plus some other useful online dictionaries are:

• Apte’s Sanskrit Dictionary
• Edgerton’s Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary
• INRIA Dictionnaire Héritage du Sanscrit : An excellent site with a dictionary as well as an invaluable stemmer.
• Monier-Williams’ Dictionary from 1899 : This is probably the most important dictionary and resource.
• Sanskrit Dictionary
• Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary
• Whitney’s Verb Roots
• SAMSKRUTAM Dictionary
• A Buddhist Sanskrit Lexicon

Grammar

• A. MacDonnell’s Sanskrit Grammar
• Charts on Saṃdhi
• INRIA Sanskrit Stemmer
• Kale Higher Sanskrit Grammar
• Learn Sanskrit Grammar
• Whitney’s Grammar Online
• Indian Language Technology Proliferation and Deployment Center

Online Courses

These are not courses for which you register but are links to online lessons that you can take at your own pace:

• SANSKRUTAM Studies
• The Sanskrit Language: Guided Sanskrit Lessons: Based on Walter Harding Maurer’s textbook by the same name.
• UBC Sanskrit
• Learn Sanskrit Online: Not really a course but a complete grammar whose chapters can be followed in order.
• University of Texas Austin Sanskrit Site
• Simple Sanskrit WP Site
• Acharaya.gen
• Trika Shaivism Sanskrit Tutorial

Sanskrit Texts For Practice

Below are links to online Sanskrit texts that are relatively simple yet challenging enough to make for good practice. The dates accessed are included since the web is so ephemeral. Note: Most sites do not use Unicode so it is not possible to copy and paste directly from the web.

• Collections:
  • Sanskrit Documents
  • Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon
  • Prajñaquest’s List of Buddhist Sanskrit Texts

• Patñjali’s Yoga Sūtras:
  • Sanskrit with Vocab and Translation from the Arlington Center (Dec. 2017)
  • Indian Edition with Three Commentaries from the Internet Archive (Dec. 2017)
  • Sanskrit and Translation of Root Text with Vyāsa’s Commentary (Dec. 2017)
• The Bhagavadgīta:
  • Gitasupersite’s Interactive Edition with Translation and Commentary (Dec. 2017)
  • Verses in Images with Translation at Ishwar.com (Dec. 2017)
  • Sanskrit Web Edition (not in Unicode)  (Dec. 2017)
• Other Texts:
  • Vālmiki Rāmāyaṇa (Feb. 2018)
  • Māhabhārata (Feb. 2018)
  • Amarakośa – a Sanskrit thesaurus (Sept. 2018)

Other Links

• IAST Transliteration Scheme (or in Wikipedia)
• ISO 15919 Transliteration Scheme
• Unicode Standard for Devanāgari
• Omniglot Sanskrit Page
• Sanskrit Letter Classification Chart

Bibliography

This limited bibliography refers to books used for this site and other helpful print resources for the study of Sanskrit. It will be on-going in development.

Print Resources

1. Hart, George L., III. A Rapid Sanskrit Method. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984.
2. MacDonnell, A. A Sanskrit Grammar for Students. London: Oxford University Press, 1927.
3. Whitney, William Dwight. The Root Verb-Forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Languages. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
4. Whitney, William Dwight. Sanskrit Grammar. 5th Edition. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993.

Online Resources

These are sites not specifically covered above:

1. Charles Wilkner, Practical Introduction to Sanskrit, http://www.danam.co.uk/Sanskrit/Sanskrit%20Introductory/Sanskrit%20Introductory.html
2. Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/
3. Learn Sanskrit Online, http://www.learnsanskrit.org/
4. The Sanskrit Heritage Site, http://sanskrit.inria.fr/index.fr.html
5. UBC Sanskrit, https://ubcsanskrit.ca/index.html
6. Works of Pāṇini for Download, http://www.wilbourhall.org/index.html#panini
7. Sanskrit Library, https://sanskritlibrary.org/: A digital library for Sanskrit education and research (2015).