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Jñānasaṅgrahaḥ is a collection of several web-based computational applications related to the Sanskrit language. The aim is to highlight the features of Sanskrit language in a way that is approachable for an enthusiastic user, even if she has a limited Sanskrit background. It comprises of (1) Saṅkhyāpaddhatiḥ, a collection of three ancient Indian numeral systems, Kaṭapayādi Saṅkhyā, Āryabhaṭīya Saṅkhyā and Bhūtasaṅkhyā and (2) Varṇajñānam, an interface and a library of utility functions related to varṇa (phonetic unit of Sanskrit language) information and manipulation.

The Kaṭapayādi system of encoding numbers as words by replacing each digit by a character was developed in ancient India. We present a …

Under the umbrella of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) division of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India, we target the problem of building general purpose knowledge graph from Sanskrit text of Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa as well as building natural language question answering system on top of the constructed KG. Due to several limitations related to the state of the art of Sanskrit NLP for semantic tasks, we opt for the process of manual annotation. We have developed a comprehensive NLP annotation tool Antarlekhaka, which is being used for this large scale annotation task.