SanskritaPradipika - a Sanskrit e-Tutor

Ganesan ganesan at IFPINDIA.ORG
Fri Jun 9 11:27:58 UTC 2006


As kindly suggested by Mr. Arlo Griffiths I twice wrote to the e-mail
address for getting a CD of Sanskritapradipika; but each time the mail reply
comes that the mail recipient was rejected by the server. I will be grateful
if someone check the mail ID or if anybody else has also come across such a
problem and if so, suggest me some other way to get the CD.
With thanks,
Ganesan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arlo Griffiths" <arlo.griffiths at LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
To: <INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:04 PM
Subject: SanskritaPradipika - a Sanskrit e-Tutor


> The following was just forwarded to me. I have not yet had the time
> to look at this 'little lamp'.
>
> Arlo Griffiths
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > SanskritaPradipika - a Sanskrit e-Tutor
> >
> > Sudhir Kaicker, New Delhi, India
> >
> > Self-description: "SanskritaPradipika [a little lamp for Sanskrit], a
> > freely downloadable e-tutor for the Sanskrit language, is intended to
> > help English-speaking people learn Sanskrit, as well as the
> > Devanagari script in which the language is written today. The medium
> > of discourse is English, but I will be gratified if the English text
> > is translated to other European and Asian languages, so that the
> > material becomes available to as large a number of aspirants as
> > possible.
> >
> > The tutor has been written in the Java programming language. In
> > principle, this is supposed to ensure that the package will run
> > without problems on any sort of computer that can be connected to the
> > Internet. The fact is, though, that SanskritaPradipika has been
> > created on ancient IBM-compatibles powered by Intel Pentium II chips,
> > running WindowsXP. Much testing therefore needs to be done before the
> > software can certifiably be said to be platform independent, and to
> > run without error on other types of computer, such as an Apple, or a
> > Sun Workstation. In this area too collaboration would be most welcome.
> >
> > Seven chapters and a section on diacritics are being offered at this
> > time. Other chapters will shortly be made available. If you have an
> > IBM or compatible PC running some version of Windows, click the
> > Download button to install both the JRE as well as
> > SanskritaPradipika. [...] However since the size of the software is
> > large (24 MB), and downloads may sometimes [be lengthy....] we do
> > offer to mail, at the cost of the recipient, a CD for use on
> > Intel/Windows platforms to most destinations worldwide. For more
> > information, or to send your comments, please write to:
> > sudhir_kaicker--at--hotmail.com"
> >
> > Chapters of the e-tutor: * Introduction; * Vovels; *Consonants; *
> > Conjuncts; * Word Building; * Sandhi; * The Sanscrit Verbs; *
> > Declensions; * Special Cases; * Simple Sentences; * Credits;
> >
> > URL http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/
> >
> > Internet Archive
> > http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org/
> >
>
>





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