[INDOLOGY] E-readers for several Sanskrit texts

[Amba Kulkarni]

Dear Dominik,

On Mon, 30 Mar 2026 at 23:08, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Amba,
>
> Thank you for this extraordinary set of facilities.
>
> I'm interested in what you refer to as "Sanity Checking".  What is that?
>
> Well, the Sanity checking is just to check if the annotation follows
Paninian rules of grammar.

Since the annotation is manually edited, we would like to ensure that if an
annotator changes the kāraka role, she also corrects the morphological
analysis, if the selection by machine were wrong.
As a very trivial example, in the case of a neuter noun, if a word is
marked as a kartā, then we must ensure that the nominative analysis is
chosen, and not the accusative.

As you know, there is a great deal of textual variation lurking behind the
> nineteenth and twentieth century printed texts that we all depend on.  How
> do you decide what a "text" is for your systems, since there is so much
> variation at the granular level?  It doesn't look as if you are editing
> from manuscripts, unless Sanity Checking includes editorial activity.
>
>
We have chosen the version that is typically being used for teaching
purposes. If there are variations, we are ignoring them at present.
The meta information for each book is being updated, and will be available
in the next few days under the 'about' tab for each book.

For  Ṛgveda, we represent the Sayaṇāchārya's interpretation.
For Mahābhārata, we have chosen the BORI's critical edition.

best,
Amba

> Best,
> Dominik
>
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