Ramopakhyana: The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata. An Electronic Book for the Sequential Unfoldment of Knowledge

Grant Details

Amount: 16950.00

Project Start Date: 06/09/06

Status: Completed (Currently Active)

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Sanskrit

Project Level:

Project Skills:

Institutions Involved:
Brown University

Primary Contact:
Peter Scharf (scharf@brown.edu)

Classics, Box 1856
Brown University
Providence , RI 02912
Phone: (401) 863-2720

The project will create a web-based annotated Sanskrit reader of the story of Rama in the Ramopakhyana of the Mahabharata. A fully annotated edition of this classic tale from ancient India will include all 727 verses in the Devanagari script as established in the critical edition of the work. Linked to the text will be a series of resources for the learner, including a Roman transliteration, separation of sandhi, prose renditions of the verses, syntactic and cultural notes, an English translation, word by word grammatical analysis including identification of inflection and stem or verbal root, lexical categorization, translation, derivation and compound analysis. The information will be presented on the World Wide Web in the format of an electronic book which allows the reader to unfold the information sequentially as needed. The resulting product will be suitable for adoption in a Sanskrit curriculum at the second year level and beyond, appropriate for either group or individual work.