Program

Digital Humanities: NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program

Period of Performance

7/1/2010 - 6/30/2014

Funding Totals

$177,872.15 (approved)
$177,811.19 (awarded)


Sanskrit Lexical Sources: Digital Synthesis and Revision

FAIN: HG-50022-10

Maharishi University of Management Research Institute (Fairfield, IA 52556-9073)
Peter M. Scharf (Project Director: October 2009 to October 2014)

An international partnership between the Sanskrit Library (Maharishi University of Management) and the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL) project (Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University) to establish a digital Sanskrit lexical reference work.

The proposed project aims to synthesize, extend, revise, and improve the principal lexical reference works of Sanskrit, one of the world's richest culture-bearing languages, and to provide wide public access to them in the digital Sanskrit library.