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Puranic Search: An Instant Search System for Puranas

Subhash Chandra, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Anju, Ph.D. Candidate

Abstract

Purana is a huge genre of Indian literature about a wide range of topics, particularly myths, legends and other traditional wisdom. It is also source of the science and technology of ancient India. Puranas are primarily written in Sanskrit language. The Puranas genre of literature is found in both Hinduism and Jainism. Puranas includes diverse topics such as cosmogony, cosmology, genealogies of gods, goddesses, kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, folk tales, pilgrimages, temples, medicine, astronomy, grammar, mineralogy, humor, love stories, as well as theology and philosophy. This paper describe a web based information extraction tools from the Puranic texts. Data of the 18 Puranas has been collected and digitalized in Devanagari script. Major goal of the paper is to introduce a search engine called Pauraic Search.

Keywords: Information Retrieval, Sanskrit Search, Purana, Online Indexing

1. Introduction

The word Puranas literally means ancient or old (Webster, 1955 and Oliver, 2006). Puranas like Vedic Samhitas and Epics form the compendium of fourfold vision of human existence. It was primarily composed in Sanskrit and later translated in various regional languages (Doniger, 1993). Purana is define as ‘Puranam Pancalakshanam’ it is the correct pre-requisite superimpose on them (Sharma, 2003).

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Dr. Subhash Chandra, M. Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics
Department of Sanskrit, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India
subhash.jnu@gmail.com
schandra@sanskrit.du.ac.in

Ms. Anju
Doctoral Research Scholar, Computational Linguistics
Department of Sanskrit, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India
anjusingh5710@gmail.com

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