IAST (transliterated romanized Sanskrit)
Devanāgarī (the most popular script for Sanskrit today)
Brāhmī (an ancient historical and beautiful script for Sanskrit)
Set Sanskrit Writer to run each time your computer starts
Enable Brāhmī mode if you wish to type in Brāhmī
Select your own hotkeys if you wish
Runs silently in the background
Toggle the writing mode with the hotkey Command + Control + S
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Helps you to learn the language and it’s grammar
English to Sanskrit and Sanskrit to English (reverse lookup)
Grammatical framework that covers the vastness of the Sanskrit
Type udātta, anudātta and svarita in IAST and Devanāgarī modes
Most common accents as used in the Ṛgveda and other text modes
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Built with grammatical framework
choose appropriate gender, case and number for nouns and adjectives
The built in English to Sanskrit dictionary works as a trainer wheels for learning to speak or write to friends in Sanskrit. You can find a word and then select the gramatical form of the word you need. Each word will have multiple synonyms so you can express yourself in an individual way. Verbs will have countless forms based on how you wish to express the action in mind and nouns will have all the inflections needed to explain what you are thinking.
When you friend happens to reply to you in Sanskrit (of course) simply use the reverse lookup feature to find the word in the built in dictionary and also see the gramatical attributes of the word.
As the dictionary is built in to the software it works even when you are offline so you can sit in a remote place and compose your next Sanskrit letter to someone!
Free
All the features of the full version but you can not type into any Mac application only inside the built in editor.
$19.99
Allows you to type Sanskrit anywhere on your Mac.
Incredible tool to type Sanskrit, I use Sanskrit writer almost every day, especially for IAST, which i think should be a standard for Latin type transliteration for Sanskrit. There is no better tool available than Sanskrit writer.
..the dictionary feature is like having training wheels for writting an e-mail in Sanskrit – a wonderful contribution to learning the language
Wonderful contribution towards the appreciation of Sanskrit! Thank you!
