Vidyut

Welcome! This documentation describes the Python bindings for Vidyut, a Rust toolkit that provides reliable infrastructure for Sanskrit software. (For a quick demo of what Vidyut can do, see our WebAssembly bindings here.)

Vidyut aims to provide performant and high-quality solutions for the common problems that Sanskrit programmers face. These problems include:

• Transliteration, or conversion of Sanskrit text from one script to another. (भू → bhū)

• Word generation, or converting bases and suffixes into complete words. (भू → भवति)

• Word lookup, or mapping a complete word back to its bases and suffixes. (भवति → भू)

• Metrical analysis, or understanding the meter used by a piece of Sanskrit text.

• Sandhi changes, or applying and undoing the sound changes that occur between pieces of Sanskrit text.

• Segmentation, or splitting a piece of Sanskrit text into distinct words.

Vidyut is under active development as part of the Ambuda project. If you want to learn more about Vidyut or get involved, we encourage you to join our community of Sanskrit enthusiasts. All are welcome regardless of background.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • Summary
  • System requirements
  • Installation
  • Linguistic data
  • Getting help
• Tutorial
  • Setup
  • Handling kosha data
  • Transliteration
  • Generating words
• Analyzing meter with vidyut.chandas
• Segmenting and tagging with vidyut.cheda
• Storing words with vidyut.kosha
  • Quickstart
  • Return types
  • Creating prakriyas
• Transliterating with vidyut.lipi
  • Quickstart
  • Features
• Generating words with vidyut.prakriya
  • Sanskrit grammatical terms
  • Quickstart
  • Basic methods
  • Specifying arguments
  • Working with data files
  • Recipes
• Handling sandhi with vidyut.sandhi
• API reference
  • vidyut.cheda
  • vidyut.chandas
  • vidyut.kosha
  • vidyut.lipi
  • vidyut.prakriya
  • vidyut.sandhi
• Changes
  • 0.4.0
  • 0.3.1
  • 0.3.0
  • 0.2.0
  • 0.1.0