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AI Sanskrit Heritage Model launched at Madras Sanskrit College
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that such efforts could make our literary treasures more accessible to everyone anywhere in the world at any time
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday stressed on the need to use AI to help ordinary people to navigate great works like those of poet Kalidasa.
Speaking after launching Sanskrit Heritage Model at The Madras Sanskrit College in association with Articul8, in Mylapore, she said AI could also perhaps be used to identify to what extent Indian languages including Tamil and Sanskrit have spread based on manuscripts, palm leaves and copper plates.
She said that such efforts could make our literary treasures more accessible to everyone anywhere in the world at any time. The Finance Minister congratulated the Madras Sanskrit College for having striven through extremely tough times and kept it’s integrity, and worked to preserve Sanskrit, Sanskrit knowledge and spreading Sanskrit knowledge. To ensure continuity of its work, the College had to plan it’s future and since Sanskrit had an inherent advantage -- of being a structured language -- it can be adapted to technology.
