Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Ten useful sites for learning Sanskrit


I've been taking online courses in Sanskrit through the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, and here are ten sites that have been helpful in my studies:
  1. Glashoff, K. (n.d.). Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit. Retrieved January 9, 2019, from http://spokensanskrit.org/
  2. Google Input Tools. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://www.google.com/inputtools/
  3. Huet, G. (n.d.). The Sanskrit Grammarian. Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/grammar.fr.html
  4. Huet, G. (n.d.). The Sandhi Engine. Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://sanskrit.inria.fr/DICO/sandhi.fr.html
  5. Jha, G. N. (n.d.). Computational Linguistics R & D at J.N.U. New Delhi. Retrieved January 9, 2019, from http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/index.jsp
  6. Kurumathur, P. (2018, February 07). Lesson 2 – Declension. Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://oursanskrit.com/2016/12/11/lesson-2/
  7. Sanskrit. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Sanskrit
  8. Sanskrit Dictionary. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2019, from http://sanskritdictionary.com/
  9. Sanskrit verb conjugation. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://www.verbix.com/languages/sanskrit.html
  10. Wiktionary. (n.d.). Retrieved January 9, 2019, from https://www.wiktionary.org/

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Places to visit in India

It's been over five years since my husband and I last visited India. I'm anxious to reconnect with family and friends.

Here's a video that I created in Google Earth Pro.



This is the list of places where I'd like to visit:

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DelhiDL
KolkataWB
BankuraWB
BardhmanWB
BengaluruKA
KozhikodeKL
AldonaGA
MumbaiMH
VadodaraGJ

Invocation to the Isopanishad ईशोपनिषद्

This video presents the invocation in Devanagari, translation to English, declension table, and analysis of cases used in the invocation. Audio is included.

More work needs to be done.