Dear Indology Folks,

This announcement comes courtesy of Harpreet Singh at Harvard. Exciting news!

Our national nightmare of lugging around Monier-Williams is finally over.  We have just released a Sanskrit dictionary app for iPhone and iPad. The app, developed in the Harvard Innovation Lab, combines three major dictionaries that are commonly used by scholars of Sanskrit--Monier-Williams, Apte and Macdonell. In addition, references from dhatu-patha (a collection of verbal roots with final forms) are also provided, when available. All words can be searched using a Devanagari keyboard.  Once downloaded, the app does not require internet access to operate. Special thanks to the faculty in Harvard's Department of South Asian Studies for their encouragement and support during the app's development.