SanskritVoice is a Web 2.0 enabled, non-profit website that has been created by Seshu Karthik (whose earlier project Stuff-a-Blog was profiled on Webyantra). The idea is to create a community of Sanskrit lovers and spread awareness about the ancient language. Seshu was driven by the urge to create a project that serves India & its culture.

The website is based on PHP, Text-Pattern and the data for the Sanskrit glossary in the RSS feed is extracted from Arthur Anthony McDonell’s ‘A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary‘.

Seshu says that he used the ‘Om’ (or Aum) in the site’s logo, for it is believed to be the basic sound of the world, and contains all other sounds. This logo was selected only in the light of Sanskrit language, and has no religious connotations.

You can submit links to the Sanskrit resources section. They can be Sanskrit tutorials, book-reviews, collection of links, or any resource that will serve the Sanskrit loving community. You can subscribe to the Sanskrit RSS feed, which contains a list of Sanskrit word-meaning pairs, and is updated several times every day. True to the Web 2.0 paradigm, there are campaign buttons supporting Sanskrit that you can embed on your blog or website. And there is also a slick widget that displays the Sanskrit glossary and this can be embedded as well.

As of now, SanskritVoice is a one-man (rather a kid’s) crusade to create a repository for the dying language on the web; if case, you can contribute to the site, or you know of somebody who can, pass on the reference and help build this community. And hats off to Seshu, who is all of 25 years old and seems very much a Web 2.0 addicted geek.