Dear all,
I'm trying to find out the whole lot of NitiBani that we were used to read while studying in Class VIII in 1987-88. One of its shloka is as follows:
Utsave Vyasane Chaiba Durbhikshye Rashtrabiplabe Rajadware Shmashane Cha Jah Tisthati Sah Vandhavah (Who are real friends)
I would be very grateful for your help to find out the whole NitiBani on some website.
Thanking all,
Warm regards,
HIMANSHU


Response from samskrutam.com team: This shloka is from Chanakya Neti. You can find this and many more in our Shloka Pages.

Hi, I am trying to find out if SAANVI is a Sanskrit name, if so could you tell the meaning of this and what is the origin of this name (like which shloka/ verse). In some baby naming sites they have given the meaning as Name of Godess Lakshmi .. is it correct ?

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I found your contents for learning sanskrit extremely helpful. I am trying to learn. I know hindi very well which is a additive factor but to be completely new for Sanskrit, need some more,commonly used translated words especially used in our Poojas, stotra etc. If you have please mail me, I will be grateful. Dhanyvaad.... Vinod

Excellent Site and a Great Effort. Of the many sites, I have found this one quite simple to learn and understand. Suggesting a correction.In chapter 3, lRRiTlakaara (Future Tense), in the first table, under "Future Tense - Third Person Singular ", the translation should be "bhaviShyatakaala prathamapuruSha ekavachana" instead of "vartamaanakaala prathamapuruSha ekavachana".

Thank you. Very useful website. I will come here to get some of my mistakes corrected.

Can you please help me in finding this? I am looking for a shloka probably from chanakaya niti, but can recall only initial words of the same i.e. 'Gandhe Suvarne, fal ishwaku dande...'. The translation was that gold does not have smell, sugarcane does not have fruits, ....kings dont have long lives etc etc. It pertained to that God did not give everything to "any one" but kept a good balance . Thanks and Kind Regards

I just want to read news in sanskrit bhasha. Can you help me?

Response from samskrutam.com team:You can get list Sanskrit News of sites from Sanskrit Websites page.

i want to read chatur vedas,upanichads,meemasa,in original classic sanskrit text books.please let me know the source to procure them and cost.

Hi, The website is Great. But I just hope you used some standard for English transliteration, like IAST or Diacritic Latin. Please know more about IAST - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration About Translitration - http://eemaata.com/indic2indic/index.php विज्ञानम् is supposed to be written as vijñānam
राकेश्वरः as rākēśvaraḥ
संस्कृतः as saṁskr̥taḥ etc.
This way there is only one Roman Character for corresponding saṁskr̥ta Character. And it is a standard so no confusion.
Regards
Rakesh

Response from samskrutam.com team: In our website we have used ITRANS, which also happens to be a more easier and accepted standard, while dealing with computer systems. Keeping in mind the larger audience over the Internet and world, using IAST is easier said than done, as most will not be able to feed-in the input characters using a 101 English keyboard. Besides, using IAST needs a higher learning curve on part of the average user than ITRANS. As we have pages like 'Online Dictionary' and 'Guest Book' which can take Devanagari inputs, we have preferred ITRANS over the rest of the standards. IAST remains a good option for print media like books, magazines etc.

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I am extremely happy to look at the web site. I got this site while searching to learn SAMSKRUTAM so as to enable me for an acquaintance with the vedic literature. I feel that I can end my search here for my purpose. HOPE THE BLESSINGS OF ALMIGHTY BE SHOWERED ON ME.

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It makes an interseting reading; All useful informations

I'm very much interested to learn Sanskrit. I'm in initial stage. Please send me material.

pls help me with few wedding slokas in sanskrit which i can put on my wedding invitation. thank you

pls help me with few wedding slokas in sanskrit which i can put on my wedding invitation. thank you

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In the test in the question No.13 (C) is correct.But (D) was ticked as correct.Verification requested. The Test ID: 83d21504-4f66-4690-82d3-55082e1b84c3 Test dated 4-1-2010.Correct Answers stated as 14 for 20.Marks given as 70.These details were given for reference.

Response from samskrutam.com team: Thank you for identifying the error. We have corrected the question paper. Your test transcript (and transcripts of all others who got this question) now reflects this correction. If you find similar errors please identify the same.

This is a good site for sanskrit & hence I want to learn & teach Sanskrit to my son who has taken up Sanskrit as an option for CBSE.

Please send me in sanskrit script your article on panchatantra and Pandit Vishnu Sharma.

I want to learn sanskrit. Can you please suggest books.

Thanks for an impressive site for promotion of Sanskrit. Keep up the good work. Meanwhile, I found two a couple of interesting subhashita blogs which are not listed in your resources. http://subhashitani.wordpress.com http://subhashitamanjari.blogspot.com

I would like to recommend this Sanskrit website: http://www.ibiblio.org/sanskrit.

i just want to request u to mention some dhatu roop and all roop should be mention in the website so that we could find easily to make my children learn.and convinient for all.why to buy difft. difft. books. thanks

I would like to have some good sanskrit shlokas or quotes on importance of books. I want them for my department library.

Dear Sir..I would like to include a few slokas in sanskrit on my wedding invitation, especially the ones inviting the gods to the auspicious ceremony.Would appreciate your kind help in this regard, could you please email the slokas along with their translations in english. Thank you Amruta

I want some good wedding slokas for my wedding invitation.Kindly provide this.

Hello, this msg is in Continuation of message 162 - I have put my effort and looked all over the internet and asked people i know for this kind of sloka but in vain. i have come back presuming that i may find some assistance. please help...sinciere thanks...:-)

I am very much impressed with the presentation; though interested and needed to learn Sanskrit I am not sitting over for it. But on seeing this site, I swear to learn Sanskrit right from now onwards.
I request I may please be guided suitably.
Ananthanarayanan

Response from samskrutam.com team: We are delighted to see that we have been able to inspire to put your contemplation into action. It is easy to learn and speak Sanskrit. Few simple steps will be -

• at home speak in Sanskrit for day-to-day conversation;
• learn basic Sanskrit grammar from books or from Grammar Tutorial Section of our website; and
• read literary works of Kalidasa, Magha etc., from books available from different publishers like MLBD.

I Want to learn spoken sansrit, Can i get a hindi to sandrit translation book where i can know the usage of the words and form sentences to speak sanskrit

Hello, I am looking for a mantra which is to invite gods to attend the marriage ceremony and bless the couple. if you can please provide that to me with the meaning in english. - thanks in advance

I want many prehalikas in Sanskrit

sanskrit sloka on the wedding invitation

plz send some sanskrit shalokas written by kalidasa for my project

Looking for a suitable text for wedding invitation in Sanskrit

Response from samskrutam.com team: You can get a set of shlokas on marriage in Marriage Shloka Page.

Plz give some wedding slogas with english meaning
thanks
santhosh

Response from samskrutam.com team: You can get a set of shlokas on marriage in Marriage Shloka Page.

VEDA schools are dwindling. through this website if possibleVEDAS may be taught with meanings. Actually my desire is that SANSKRIT SHOULD BE THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF INDIA.

Response from samskrutam.com team: Thank you for your suggesation. In fact we are currently preparing contents with selected shlokas from Veda/Upanishads along with their appropriate meaning and context. In near future we will start publishing the articles.

We also desire Sanskrit becomes our day-to-day language. However, we get only what we deserve and not what we desire. So, let us all work towards bringing back Sanskrit to our daily life with the simple start at our own homes.

Could u pls send me a few lines written in sanskrit about my school. I need to write an essay on my school in sanskrit.

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A good website for learning Samskritam http://www.chitrapurmath.net/sanskrit/sanskrit.asp

Response from samskrutam.com: Thank you for sharing the websites. We will add these to the list of 'Resources Page'.

I really appreciate for your valuable services, and your aim to make easier sanskrit for the world. I found only one site who provides slokas in sanskrit,and slokas are translated in many languages. Thank You very much.

Thank you for putting up this site. I am posting one sanskrit sloka a day to my friends and relations and they are appreciating it. One more good thing is you have not put any copyright restrictions , which is as it should be. I feel our ancient wisdom like Chanakya Neethi have to be read by all. Even if I want to copy only the sloka from the book, I have copy restrictions. Hence I find your site very useful. All of us are learning a bit of Sanskrit due to this.
Thank you once again.

Response from samskrutam.com team: We are happy to see our effort achiving the real intent.

This website is one of the few practical efforts that I have found on the web that works towards bringing back Smaskrit to life. I came upon this site when I was searching for the original of the shlokas of Chankya's Niti Shastra. There are many sites that put the English translation but this is the only one where one finds the original which have a flavour of their own.Hebrew is one of the dead language that has been brought back to life by the Israelis. A hundred years ago it was used only in the religious ceremonies of the Jews whereas today it is used as day to day spoken language by the whole of Israel.The same can be done with Samskrit.It is the mother language of our national language Hindi and almost all our vernaculars.Only when Samskrit will be used as language in our daily life, then only it will be truly revived. From the log it is evident that the team is putting some serious effort and all of them deserve our praise.Good work!

Response from samskrutam.com team: Thank you for your complements. We are sure in near future Sanskrit will start taking the same place in our daily life as it was only a few hundred years back. To make this successful all we need is to start using Sanskrit at home just like our mother-tongue. This small begining is the most effective way forward.

I really appreciate for ur valuable service for providing the easy way to learn the sanskrit.
Thank you.

Response from samskrutam.com team: Thank you for your complements.

Welcome to samskrutam.com.

In our continuing effort to spread Sanskrit we are happy to introduce the Sanskrit version of famous word game Crossword Puzzles. We have started with puzzles covering different themes, along with their solutions. The puzzles can be accessed at - Crossword Puzzles.

You can also contribute crossword puzzles. We will check those for correctness and publish along with your name. While authoring few rules are to be followed. The rules are listed in the puzzle page. For submitting a puzzle or for any queries please write to us at sanskrit@samskrutam.com.

! ! ! Happy Puzzle Solving ! ! !

Welcome to samskrutam.com. In our continuing effort to spread Sanskrit we have included the following online features in our website. These will help learning Sanskrit easily, and are free to use.

Online Test: You can undergo online-tests to test your knowledge on Sanskrit grammar, literature and shloka. Each test will list a set of 20 randomly selected objective type questions for you to answer. On completion, the result is displayed immediately, along with detailed answers. Each such test is given an unique Test Id and we preserve all such test sessions for your reference. Using the Test Id you can view your earlier tests. You can undergo any number of online-tests. (Online Test)

Online Dictionary: 5000+ words for day-to-day use, collected from different sources are in the dictionary. You can search words as Sanskrit-English, English-Sanskrit and ITRANS-Sanskrit. More words are being added to the dictionary. (Online Dictionary)

Online Shloka: A collection of shlokas and mantras are in the "Shloka" section, categorised as Chanakya Neeti, Subhattiam, Peace Mantras and Mantras. More such shlokas are being collected. (Shloka Collection)

Online Grammar: Basic Sanskrit grammar has been detailed in "Grammar & Tutorial" section. Content for advanced grammar is being written. (Online Grammar Tutorial)

ASP.NET Web Service: We have exposed the Online Dictionary and Shloka as web services. If you are building any Sanskrit Software, these web services can be consumed to get the data from samskrutam.com data repository. (ASP.NET Web Service  |  Service WSDL)


Besides these we have different pages for literature, stories, Sanskrit website links, book publishers etc. We keep on adding more contents, to cover different aspects of Sanskrit language and literature. So, do keep visiting the different sections.

This post is to help anyone who is interested in pursuing a formal course on Sanskrit.

Samskrita Bharati, India (http://www.samskritabharati.org/) gives both classroom and correspondence courses on Sanskrit.

Registration: Open through-out the year.

Exam Schedule: The exam is conducted every 3rd Sunday of Februrary and August every year. If an exam centre is not available in specific city, they will send the question papers to answer. The answer paper can be returned over post.

Courses: 4 grades viz., Pravesha, Parichaya, Siksha and Kovida. Each grade is a 6 months course. Certificate is given on successful completeion on each grade.

Current Course Fees: Rs. 200/- for every grade (in India).

Please write them an email and they will give the details of admission procedure.

Contact information:

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Following email was received from 'Himanshu R Pota', which we thought of posting here. We appreciate the message in Sanskrit.
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विशेषरूपे मम नित्यवाक्यानि पश्यन्तु
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