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Pune, May 10, 2002
Centre for Development
of Advanced Computing (C-DAC),
unveiled the web version of Dnyaneshwari and the CD
volumes of Dnyaneshwari and Bhagavad-Gita on the occasion
of the 60th birthday of Shri Sakhare Maharaj of Alandi,
today
C-DAC's National Multimedia
Resource Centre (NMRC)
has developed a software template, using which the entire
content of Dnyaneshwari and Bhagavad-Gita is hosted on the web. The Dnyaneshwari,
written by Saint Dnyaneshwar, is one of the most profound
commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita in Prakrit Marathi,
an old form of Marathi. The Web version of Dnyaneshwari
is accessible at http://indianheritage.cdac.in.
The Multimedia CDs and the Web version of Dnyaneshwari
are presented entirely in Marathi with exclusively designed
fonts.
The entire content
of Dnyaneshwari and Bhagavad-Gita is distributed over
2 CD volumes. These CDs include translation and musical
recitation with the precise pronunciations of Marathi
and Sanskrit Verses. The users are simultaneously able
to read the text and listen to the recitation of verses
of every page of the Dnyaneshwari and Bhagavad-Gita.
It is also possible to browse through Bhagavad-Gita
and Dnyaneshwari in a selective or integrated manner
and the user can directly move to any Chapter, Shloka
or Ovi.
Speaking on the occasion,
Shri. R.K. Arora, Executive Director, C-DAC said, "By
hosting the Dnyaneshwari on the web, a large segment
of users can now access the rich contents of this great
commentary in an attractive, user friendly format".
NMRC has been working
over the last two years on this development. This mammoth
task was undertaken by C-DAC under the Digital Library
for Indian Heritage Project sponsored by the Department
of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology, Govt. of India.
C-DAC's NMRC is a harbor
of technical and creative expertise, tools and libraries,
training resource and multimedia reference archives.
It offers these resources for building Digital Libraries
in the country to various concerned institutions. NMRC
also imparts training in Multimedia and its applications.
In addition it also offers Consultancy / Services in
the area of Multimedia CD Title Creation, CBT Development,
Web Page Designing & Computer Animation.
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