🕉 KIT-108 — Dharmic Hinduism Multi-Script Sanskrit Corpus

Universal Sanskrit Transliteration & Digital Humanities Toolkit

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📜 Project Overview

KIT-108 is a structured digital Sanskrit corpus and transliteration toolkit
designed for Digital Humanities, Philology, Comparative Linguistics, and Dharmic Studies.

This project serves two parallel purposes:

1. 🗂 Corpus Preservation – Structured archival packaging of major Dharmic texts
2. 🔤 Multi-Script Rendering Engine – Machine-generated script conversion layer

The corpus is distributed via Internet Archive,
while this repository provides the processing engine used to normalize and transliterate textual layers.

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📚 Corpus Scope

Included textual families (depending on collection build):

• Bhagavad Gita
• Mahabharata
• Valmiki Ramayana
• Selected Vedic Texts
• GRETIL Archive Texts
• SARIT XML Corpus
• Muktabodha Digital Texts
• Supplementary research corpora

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🔠 Supported Script Layers

Machine-generated script layers may include:

• IAST (Romanized Sanskrit)
• Devanagari
• IPA
• Thai
• Lao
• Khmer
• Burmese

All transliteration layers are:

⚙ Machine-generated
📖 Textually faithful (no semantic modification)
🔍 Designed for research indexing & comparative study

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🏗 Repository Function

This repository contains the lightweight transliteration engine used to process ZIP-based Sanskrit corpora.

Core Capabilities

• 📦 Batch processing from ZIP archives
• 📄 Supports TXT / XML / JSON
• ⚡ Multi-core processing
• 🔁 Cached transliteration for efficiency
• 🔤 Powered by Aksharamukha engine
• 🧠 Designed for large-scale digital humanities workflows

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⚙ Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Dependencies:

• aksharamukha
• tqdm

Python 3.9+ recommended.

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🚀 Usage

Basic example:

python aom.py sample.zip --source IAST --target Thai

Advanced example:

python aom.py gretil.zip \
  --source Devanagari \
  --target IAST \
  --out output_folder \
  --workers 8

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📂 Example Workflow

Corpus ZIP
   ↓
Parse Text (TXT / XML / JSON)
   ↓
Normalize
   ↓
Transliteration Engine
   ↓
Multi-Script Output Layer

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🧠 Research Applications

This toolkit supports:

• Sanskrit philological comparison
• Script evolution studies
• Southeast Asian Indic transmission research
• Digital text alignment
• Corpus indexing and search optimization
• Cross-script Dharmic textual analysis

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⚖ Legal & Rights Notice

Educational Purpose Only

This project supports:

• Non-commercial academic use
• Digital preservation
• Public domain archival

Historical materials included in distributed corpus builds
are either:

• Public domain
• Orphan works
• Research-distributed texts

No commercial profit is derived.

May this knowledge sharing (Dharma-Dana) lead to peace and wisdom.

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🧭 Project Structure

KIT-Universal-Transliteration/
│
├── aom.py
├── proc.py
├── requirements.txt
├── README.md
└── LICENSE

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🌏 Relationship to Internet Archive Release

The Internet Archive hosts:

📦 Corpus Data Collections

This GitHub repository provides:

🔧 Processing & Transliteration Engine

Both are complementary components of KIT-108.

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🔮 Roadmap

Planned future expansions:

• Script alignment matrix mode
• TEI-aware structural preservation
• Layer comparison export
• Corpus metadata auto-generation
• Linguistic tokenization layer
• Search-optimized normalized layer

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👤 Project Identity

KIT-108 Project
Digital Humanities Initiative
Southeast Asian Dharmic Preservation Framework

Year: 2026

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