
translations of Sanskrit Classics

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30th July, 2008










Word-for-word transliterations of Sanskrit classics being the motto, we strive to present some legendary works on this webpage with the enthusiasm given by our readers to proceed further in this long-forgotten lane of Sanskrit Classics. Among them Ritusamhāram, gīta-govindam are completed, while others like vAlmIki rAmAyaNa, raghuvamsham,harivamsham are yet to be completed.
Earlier, bhārata sāvitri, an extinct text forming part of mahābhārata, is retrieved and presented here.
As of now, August 08, only one browser, namely Opera, is showing Sanskrit fonts correctly. All these works are done with the fonts of Omkārananda Ashram, and the readers are requested to install Sanskrit 98, 99, Sanskrit99classic, Translit 98, URW Palladio IT etc fonts to see these works. Fonts are provided herewith in a zip file.
There is an unsung but beautiful font, with Itranslator called Sanskrit99classic, and Ritusamhāram is reworked in that font, for a change. gīta-govindam and raghuvamshamare in Sanskrit 99 font, but Sanskrit99classic also shows them. And fonts Sanskrit 98 and Translit 98 are for vālmiki rāmāyaNa. English text is composed in Georgia font. All these fonts are available here: fonts.zip [600kb]
Even though these fonts are installed the result may be gibberish as main bowsers have stopped dispalying Indic fonts properly. Hence we suggest the reraders to use older versions of browsers, especially Opera, which are somewhat faithful in rendering old fonts. In view of the failure of browsers to render Indic fonts properly, of late we have resorted to give texts only in Itrans coding.
ashIrvAdam like thanksgiving to damarAju phaNi kumAr who made this exclusive webpage for gIrvANi happen. [aside: of course, he is my nephew, sister's son.]
bApu, bapubomma -- all the drawings / paintings / objects used in the pictures of this webpage are drawn from various works of this eminent illustrator - bApu...
Stu Nicholls of CSSPlay, Bristol, BANES, United Kingdom for beautiful designs of webpage in css like a picture gallery, expanding menu and a tabbed page eyc, that are adopted to these pages of gIrvANi.
Vexed with the problem of proper display by vrowsers, we stopped giving font-wise files these days. But the love for our labour demands the supply of these old fonts used in these works, and they are avaible in this zip file: fonts.zip [600kb]
These fonts and Sanskrit Editor - Itranslator 98, 99 and 2003 are made available
by
Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas. Though not compulsory, we request our reades
to make donations to this Ashramam
The purpose of this site is to provide resources on the Great Itihasa Mahabharata and this is maintained by A. Harindranath: http://mahabharata-resources.org/
For Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya By Madhwacharya maintained by Harshala Rajesh: http://www.geocities.com/mahabharata_tatparya_nirnaya/
Sanskrit Documents Respository and Gaudiya Grantha Mandira : these two sites need no introduction
For Sanskrit fonts with technical mannuals for fonts, and texts with a few other Sanskrit documents etc maintained by Ulrich Stiehl. www.sanskritweb.net
For free screensavers depicting Ramayana in painting by Bapu, Sanskrit and TeluguAlphabets in play etc: evibhavari
For various Sanskrit texts and scriptures: Vedic Recitations - audio files
Classical Indian Music, Discourses,
Literature (audio) site of Sai Susarla.
For Sanskrit oriented discussions, India classical and light music, and for
some gramaphon records of oldest possible Telugu verse dramas; maintained by
Susarla Sai
and many, many more webpages and sites dedicated to Sanskrit works...
if the above does not work properly please contact :
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