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Help needed to type out a Sanskrit manuscript

Radhe Radhe

I have a 23 page Sanskrit Devanagari script manuscript that I needed to get typed out accurately/perfectly. We can also work on translation to Hindi or English thereafter if it goes well. I can decipher most of the text, however my field of expertise is Brajabhasha and not Sanskrit and therefore needed someone who is experienced with reading Sanskrit Devanagari manuscripts. Happy to pay for a good service.

The topic of the manuscript may be considered quite uncommon. The author is establishing Sri Radha as a Svatantra Sakti, however, he is also not a Sakta follower. Please reach out if you have good experience and time to assist.

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u/Perfect-Emergency499 — 16 hours ago

How do you write Sanskrit on your laptop?

I am currently using Google Translate, writing it there, and copy pasting into Word. Microsoft doesnt have an Indic Language Tool for Sanskrit, the Hindi tool is not reliable at all. So, how do you guys manage to write in Sanskrit on your laptop? Please help.

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Another attempt

Again back to the thing and I have written a sloka on vyasa and valmiki together..

प्रपद्ये व्यासवाल्मीकी शुभाङ्गौ कविपुङ्गवौ ।

यौ काव्यदेवतलक्ष्म्याः हस्तयोः पद्मरूपिणौ ॥

How is it ?

Any mistakes please feel free to point out....

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u/PropertyLate501 — 2 days ago

Āpastambha dharmasutra query (1.17.30)

In prathama praśna, saptadaśī kaṇdikā

Sutra 30 goes like धेन्वनडुहोर्भक्ष्यम् (इति)

Patrick olivelle translated it as "it's permitted to eat meat of milch cow and oxen"

I was concerned about it, can anyone do padaccheda of the sutra. Any commentators work on this particular sutra?

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u/BackgroundAlarm8531 — 3 days ago

Ekakshara slokam query

I was reading the book the wonder is sanskrit and came across this sloka which I had already seen in the paaduka sahasram by vedanta desika. Need help to understand meaning of each word in the anvaya krama if possible

Overall meaning is this : The sandals which adorn the Lord, which help in attainment of all that is good and auspicious, which give knowledge, which cause the desire (of having the Lord as one's own), which remove all that is hostile, which have attained the Lord, which are used for going and coming from one place to another, by which all places of the world can be reached, these sandals are for Lord Vishnu.

Wondrous!!!

u/PropertyLate501 — 6 days ago

Significance of dividing the 14 Maheshwara Sutras into 9 and 5

The following verse explains the origin of the 14 Maheshwara Sutras used by Panini:

॥ नृत्तावसाने नटराजराजो ननाद ढक्कां नवपञ्चवारम् ।

उद्धर्तुकामः सनकादिसिद्धान् एतद्विमर्शे शिवसूत्रजालम् ॥

Is there any significance to the division of the 14 sutras into 9 and 5 in the word नवपञ्चवारम्? Is it just to fit the poetic meter?

Thank you!

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u/Ambitious-Donut-6189 — 5 days ago

Trying again

Thought about writing about kamsa and came up with this verse :

क्षिप्त्वा स्वकीयं पितरं स्वराज्यात् आदाय पीठं निजमित्रवाक्यात्,

भृशं निलिम्पानपि त्रासयित्वा अपालयद् भोजपतिः पुरीं च ॥

Please help in identifying the meter ( i am confused between vamshasta, indravajra and upendravajra and such) and if any discrepancy in laghu guru pattern, please correct.

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u/PropertyLate501 — 7 days ago

is it possible to convert modern indian names to patronymics and matronymics without simply adding putra and putri at the end of the names like how it was possible to do with ancient indian names?

ancient examples:

son of vallabha > vāllabheya daughter of kātyāyana > kātyāyanī son of pāndu > pāndava son of kunti > kaunteya daughter of parvata > pārvati daughter of drupada > draupadi

are such matronymics and patronynics possible to construct from modern indian names without simply adding putra or putri at the end of the parents' names?

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u/sheev---palpatine — 7 days ago

I’m looking for help to translate this text for an art project. Anybody willing to help? 🙏🏻

May we be safe and protected.
May we be peaceful.
May we be healthy and strong.
May we be happy.

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u/stoplookingformyredt — 7 days ago

How to learn Sanskrit from basics ?

I really want to start learning Sanskrit on my own instead of reading translations. Can anyone please help me how to start from the basics ?

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u/Fun-External-5684 — 8 days ago

Wrote a Sanskrit shlokam

I had tried to write a verse in sanskrit in vasantatilaka meter. Just wanted to ask if there are any mistakes in my verse

Devata is sitaa devi/lakshmi

श्रीखण्डचर्चितमुरःस्थलमभ्युपेत्य

कान्त्या तवैव जननि रघुवर्यभार्ये ।

सम्भाससे सरसिजे उदधिसुजाते

भक्त्या प्रयच्छ शुभगं सततं रमे मे ॥

पदच्छेदः

श्रीखण्ड-चर्चितम् | उरः-स्थलम् | अभ्युपेत्य |

कान्त्या | तव | एव | जननि | रघुवर्य-भार्ये ।

सम्भाससे | सरसिजे | उदधि-सुजाते ।

भक्त्या | प्रयच्छ | शुभगम् | सततम् | रमे | मे ॥

प्रत्येक शब्दार्थः

श्रीखण्ड = sandalwood

चर्चितम् = anointed, smeared

→ श्रीखण्डचर्चितम् = anointed with sandal paste

उरःस्थलम् = chest, bosom

अभ्युपेत्य = having approached, having reached

कान्त्या = by splendour, by beauty, by radiance

तव = Your

एव = indeed, alone

जननि = O mother

रघुवर्य = the best of the Raghu dynasty (Rāma)

भार्ये = O wife

→ रघुवर्यभार्ये = O consort of Rāma

सम्भाससे = You shine / You appear radiant / You are adorned

सरसिजे = O lotus-born / O lotus-like one

उदधि = ocean

सुजाते = well-born, nobly born

→ उदधिसुजाते = born from the ocean (Lakṣmī / Śrī)

भक्त्या = with devotion

प्रयच्छ = grant, bestow

शुभगम् = auspicious, beautiful, blessed

सततम् = always

रमे = O Ramā (Lakṣmī)

मे = to me / for me

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u/PropertyLate501 — 8 days ago

What is the difference between vidya, shastra and tantra as in dhanurvidya, neetishastra, rajyatantra ?

How do they differ from each other?
Is it defined by the depth of the knowledge. Is tantra much deeper in knowledge than the other two ?

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u/UpbeatGarima — 9 days ago

Translation of the 4 Brahmavihāras

Hi,

I'm looking to have these words written in Sanskrit for an art project I'm working on. Would someone be able to help with this? Thank you!

  1. Metta

  2. Karuna

  3. Mudita

  4. Upekkha for

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u/stoplookingformyredt — 8 days ago
▲ 118 r/sanskrit+1 crossposts

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra: Rigveda and Shukla Yajurveda side by side

Rigvedic text is taken from a pdf from Scribd and Shuklayajurvedic text taken from vedapath

u/More_Living9471 — 13 days ago

मम भ्रातुः लीढमद्व्याधिरस्ति

किं लीढिमद्भवति?

>!लीढि मद्गोलौ!<

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u/_Stormchaser — 12 days ago

Why is Sanskrit an Artificial Language?

Stop calling Sanskrit the "mother of all languages." It’s not a language; it’s an engineered construct.

Panini just created a language by sitting on a desk like esperanto. If it were a "natural" language, it would have evolved, decayed, and changed like every other human tongue. Instead, it’s a rigid, artificial script used by elites to keep a monopoly on knowledge.

It was never spoken by the masses; it was only ever "computed" by scholars.

https://youtu.be/T3yDwafmZKQ

Unfortunately, This is what some people say.

u/Weekly_Direction6401 — 13 days ago