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Associations and Conferences
Journals
Faculty and Researchers’ Pages
Blogs (Technology and Research)
Media
Summer and Study Abroad Programs
Fellowships for Language Study and Study Abroad
Bibliographies

Columbia University Resources

• South Asia Collection at Columbia University Libraries
• Columbia University South Asia Seminar
• South Asia Institute
• Language Resource Center (LRC)
• South Asia Resource Access on the Internet (SARAI)
• South Asia Across the Disciplines Series (Columbia UP)

Computing Basics: Fonts and Keyboards

• South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC, Univ. of Chicago)
• Indic Language Fonts Luc Devroye
• Gallery of Unicode Devanagari Fonts WAZU JAPAN
• SIL International Gentium and related transliteration fonts
• Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL)
• Devanāgarī Typing and Keyboard Layouts UBC
• Using Unicode fonts with Mac OSX
• Multilinguial software, text processing tools, fonts, etc. Indology
• Sanskrit Documents: Processing Tools
• Indolipi: Software for Indologists and Linguists Elmar Kniprath

Language Materials

• Learning Tools: Sandhi, Declension, Conjugation, etc.

  • Devanāgarī Writing Tutors: Acharya, SOAS, UBC, ANU, Bharatdarshan
  • The Sanskrit Library Script, Declension, Grammar, Reader, Library
  • UBC Sanskrit: Learning Tools Writing system, Sandhi, Paradigms, etc. (Goldmans’ textbook)
  • The Sanskrit Heritage Site Grard Huet – Sandhi, Declension, Reader
  • Sanskrit Documents: Learning Tools Links to many third-party resources
  • Computational Linguistics R&D JNU – Sandhi, Declension, Lexicons
  • Ganakastadhyayi Sandhi, Declension, Dhātupāṭha, Lexicons, Aṣṭādhyāyī, commentaries and translations
  • Paninian Grammar, Sanskrit Prosody Anand Mishra
  • IndoSkript Electronic Indic Paleography

• Online Courses and Introductory Materials

  • An Analytical Cross-referenced Sanskrit Grammar Lennart Warnemyr
  • Ancient Sanskrit Online See Lesson Resources : Contents : Grammar Points
  • Alois Payer (German)
  • Acharya Sanskrit Lessons Sanskrit as a modern spoken language
  • Sri Satya Sai Veda Pratisthan Paradigms, Readings, Conversation

Online Dictionaries and Reference Works

• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia Center for Research Libararies and the University of Chicago
• Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, University of Cologne
• Sanskrit Heritage Dictionary Grard Huet
• Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Alexander Lubotsky and Robert Beekes
• Online Dictionaries and Thesauri from the Indology website
• SARVA South Asian Residual Vocabulary Assemblage
• Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary
• Maps of South Asia Perry-Castaeda Library, Map Collection
• A Historical atlas of South Asia (Schwartzberg) Digital South Asia Library

Books

• Chaukhamba Sanskrit Series Office
• Motilal Banarsidass
• South Asia Books
• Indological Publishers and Bookshops Indology
• Clay Sanskrit Library

Electronic Text Repositories

• Virtual e-Text Archive of Indic Texts Indology
• GRETIL Gttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
• TITUS Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien
• SARIT Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts
• DLI Digital Library of India, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• DCS Digital Corpus of Sanskrit
• Muktabodha Indological Research Institute Digital Library
• French Institute of Pondicherry
• Center for Tantric Studies
• E-texts Collection (South Asia) South And Southeast Asian Studies, Columbia University
• Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon University of the West and Nagarjuna Institute of Exact Methods
• Internet Archive E-book and text archive
• Online Books Page University of Pennsylvania list of resources
• Sanskrit Documents
• Sanskrit Texts and Stotras
• Sri Sathya Sai Veda Pratishtan Veda e-texts
• Gaudiya Grantha Mandira
• Atmadharma Jain texts and lectures
• Rashriya Sanskrit Sansthan texts in pdf format
• Sanskrit Wikibooks texts in html format
• Clay Sanskrit Library Corpus
• Internet Sacred Texts Archive
• Dvaita Text Resource
• Rasavidyā Indian Alchemy
• A Theravada Library John T. Bullitt
• Pāḷi Tipiṭika
• Buddhist Scriptures Information Retrieval

Manuscripts (see also Centers for Sanskrit Study)

• Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts (IGNCA)
• Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation/Cataloguing Project (NGM[P/C]P)
• International Cooperative Project for Digitization and Cataloguing of the Wooner Collection, Punjab University Library, Lahore
• The Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project
• Muktabodha Indological Research Institute
• French Institute of Pondicherry
• Sanskrit language collections British Library
• Sanskrit Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania scanned images
• International Dunhuang Project The Silk Road Online
• Memory of Asia Project to preserve palm-leaf manuscripts of Asia
• e-ternals.com “The open intitiative for protecting and publishing our cultural heritage”

Online Resources

• Indology mailing list, texts, software, articles, books and links
• DSAL Digital South Asia Library
• SARAI Columbia University’s “South Asia Resource Access on the Internet”
• Resources for the Study of South and Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures SUB Gttingen
• Bharatasahitya – array of links to Sanskrit sites and texts
• Archive of Indological Resources Online Gudrun Bhnemann, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• South Asia Resources Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
• South Asia Links Timoth Lubin, Washington and Lee University
• Indica et Buddhica Materials for Indology and Buddhology
• Indian Logic Forum
• Sanskrit Portal Grard Huet
• Indian Epigraphy
• Veda and Vedic Ritual: Materials for the Study of Vedic Ritual Jan Houben
• Vedavid John Gardner
• Mahābhārata Resources
• Mahābhārata Pages James Fitzgerald, Brown University
• John Smith’s home page texts, fonts and programs
• Bibliography of Indian Philosophy Karl Potter, University of Washington
• Jambudvipa – Indology and Sanskrit Studies Paolo Magnone
• Internet Encycopedia of Philosophy Indian Philosophy
• Sanskrit Knowledge Systems on the Eve of Colonialism
• Historiography and Intellectual Culture of Kashmir
• Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India
• Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Nyāya Tradition
• Philosophindia Francis Zimmermann
• Tantra Foundation
• Tantrābhidhānakośa Project A Hindu Tantric Dictionary
• Digital Library & Museum of Buddhist Studies
• The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art
• Temple Mural Paintings of Tamilnadu, India
• Pandanus Database of Plants and Sanskrit e-Texts
• Iranian Studies at Harvard University Oktor Skjrv
• Swedish South Asian Studies Network
• Institute of Indian Studies, Univeristy of Groningen Skandapurāṇa and Vākāṭaka Conferences

Associations and Conferences

• International Association of Sanskrit Studies
• World Sanskrit Conference
• Association for Asian Studies, AAS Annual Meeting
• American Oriental Society, AOS Annual Meeting
• Annual Conference on South Asia University of Wisconsin-Madison
• International Indology Graduate Research Symposium
• South Asia Graduate Students Conference University of Chicago
• International Association of Buddhist Studies

Journals

• Indica et Buddhica – Tabulae
• Journal of Asian Studies
• Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Bulletin de l'cole franaise d'Extrme-Orient
• Journal asiatique
• Middle East and North Africa Collection (MENAdoc – the collection)
• Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlndischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)
• Indologica Taurinensia The Journal of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies
• Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici
• Orientalia Suecana International journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic, Sinological and Turkic studies
• Indo-Iranian Journal
• Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies
• International Journal of Tantric Studies
• Journal of Indian Philosophy
• Philosophy East and West
• Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology [ARIRIAB] at Soka University
• International Journal of Hindu Studies
• International Journal of Jaina Studies online, SOAS
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies
• Ejournal of Indian Medicine
• Journal of Buddhist Ethics
• Vivechana online journal and discussion forum on India and Indian heritage
• Sanskrit Vimarśaḥ e-journal of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
• asianart.com The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia

Faculty and Researchers’ Pages

Blogs (Technology and Research)

• Dwīpāntara Andrea Acri
• fulla de palma Aleix
• Sanskrit Literature Venetia Ansell
• Jalasthāna Manuel Batsching
• ad orientem vergere Krishna Del Toso
• Avacūrikā Csaba Dezső
• cole franaise d’Extrme-Orient, Pondichry, Inde
• sanscrite cogitare, sanscrite loqui Elisa Freschi
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online Charles Ellwood Jones
• Pratibhanusarini — 九州インド哲学ブログ２: On Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies Kei Kataoka
• Cashmerian Sanscritist Mrinal Kaul
• In texts, through thoughts, with pleasure Birgit Kellner
• Jinajik Iain Sinclair
• Gāruḍam blog Michael J. Slouber
• Granthinām Daniel Stender
• prātibhaṃ netram Somadeva Vasudeva
• Tantrik Studies Christopher Wallis and Christopher Tompkins
• Cikitsā Dominic Wujastyk
• Thor bu – Curiosia Indo-Tibetica
• Belgian Indology Societas Belgica Indiae Orientalis
• Digital Resources for Buddhist Studies Marcus Bingenheimer, Simon Wiles and Joey Hong
• International Dunhuang Project
• Indologica featuring independent publications and academic journals

Media

• The News in Sanskrit All India Radio, Prasar Bharati
• Sudharma, epaper
• Newsletter of the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
• Sanskrit audio recordings Library of Congress
• Digital Indic Texts and Recordings Tim Lubin
• Sanskrit Multimedia, including recordings of Ram Karan Sharma

Summer and Study Abroad Programs

• Elementary and Intermediate Sanskrit Summer session, SASLI
• Beginning Sanskrit Kathmandu University, Nepal
• Sanskrit beyond Intermediate Summer and academic-year programs in Pune, India, AIIS

Fellowships for Language Study and Study Abroad

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
• FLAS Fellowships at Columbia
• American Institute of Indian Studies
• Fulbright Fellowships

Bibliographies

• Online South Asian bibliographies Indology
• South Asia Research Database Services (SARDS)

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