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5,000 Years of Knowledge.
One AI to Unlock It.

The world's first AI-powered research portal for Indological studies. Decode Sanskrit manuscripts, map philosophical traditions, and explore five millennia of Indian civilisation.

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Our Mission

Bridging the past
with the possible

Indology.AI brings together the rigour of classical scholarship and the reach of modern AI. We index 50,000+ manuscripts, power Sanskrit natural-language processing, and build the world's most comprehensive knowledge graph of Indian civilisation — so that every scholar, student, and curious mind can access the depth of 5,000 years of recorded thought.

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Core capabilities

Everything a researcher needs

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Sanskrit AI Engine

Parse, translate and semantically analyse Sanskrit texts with language models trained on the entire classical corpus — Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Sutras and commentaries. Supports Devanagari, IAST, Harvard-Kyoto and SLP1.

Sandhi AnalysisCompound SplittingMorphological Parsing

सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः

↓ AI Translation

"May all beings be happy"

Yajurveda 36.17 · 98% confidence
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Manuscript OCR & Search

Upload any scanned manuscript — palm leaf, paper, copper plate — and receive AI-transcribed, searchable text with confidence scoring, script identification across 28 Indic scripts, and palaeographic dating estimates.

BrahmiGranthaSiddhamTamil Grantha
Manuscript OCR
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Philosophy Knowledge Map

Navigate all six orthodox Darśanas and the rich landscape of Buddhist, Jain and heterodox traditions through our AI-built interactive knowledge graph — tracing lineages, debates, key thinkers and primary texts.

Advaita VedantaNyāyaBuddhismJainism
Advaita Nyāya Sāṃkhya Yoga Mīmāṃsā Vedānta
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Historical Timeline AI

Explore 5,000 years of Indian civilisation on a dynamic, AI-enhanced timeline. Connect events, dynasties, texts and cultural milestones across time and geography with correlated cross-civilisational context.

10,000+ eventsDynasty mapsTrade routes
Indus
3000 BCE
Vedic
1500 BCE
Maurya
322 BCE
Gupta
320 CE
Vijayanagara
1336 CE
AI Tools Suite

Built for deep research

A suite of AI tools designed for every dimension of Indological scholarship.

Sanskrit AI Translator
सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः। सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु। मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत्॥
DevanagariIASTHK

May all beings be happy.
May all be free from disease.
May all see auspiciousness.
May none suffer.

Yajurveda 36.17Anuṣṭubh metre98% confidence

Sanskrit AI Engine

Trained on millions of verses from Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Sutras and classical literature. Understands Sandhi, Samāsa, Kāraka resolution, and source attribution — all in a single query.

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Manuscript OCR Engine
Manuscript
Brahmi
95%
Grantha
72%
Tamil
88%
Devanagari
61%

Manuscript OCR

Upload scanned manuscripts in any Indian script and receive AI-transcribed, searchable text with confidence scoring, script identification and palaeographic dating estimates accurate to within 50 years.

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Scholar AI Chat
What is the concept of Ṛta in the Rigveda?
Ṛta (ऋत) is one of the foundational concepts of the Rigveda, representing cosmic order, truth, and the principle that governs both the natural world and moral conduct.

It appears over 300 times in the RV and is closely associated with Varuna and Mitra, who are described as its guardians (ṛtasya gopā)...
RV 1.2.8RV 1.105.12Gonda (1959)

Scholar AI Chat

Ask complex questions about Indian philosophy, history and culture. Our AI is trained on authoritative Indological sources — every answer is grounded in primary texts with full citations.

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Knowledge Graph Explorer
Aryabhata Āryabhaṭīya Zero (Śūnya) Gupta Era Nalanda Trigonometry

Knowledge Graph

Explore interconnected civilisational knowledge — people, texts, places and ideas — through an AI-built dynamic graph that surfaces connections invisible to traditional research methods.

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Knowledge base

Five millennia of recorded thought

2,847

Vedic texts

All four Vedas, 108 Upanishads, Brahmanas and Aranyakas with AI-assisted commentary and cross-references.

15k+

Historical entries

Dynasties, kingdoms, rulers, battles and archaeological evidence from the Indus Valley to the Vijayanagara Empire.

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Major schools

All six orthodox Darśanas plus Buddhist, Jain and heterodox traditions with primary text access and lineage mapping.

50k+

Art images

Temple architecture, sculpture, iconography and visual traditions searchable by period, style and regional school.

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Vedic sciences

Astronomy, mathematics, medicine, architecture, linguistics — each discipline indexed and cross-referenced with primary sources.

120+

Languages

Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Tamil Sangam literature and 28 classical Indic scripts with full transliteration support.

Get involved

Help preserve &
share India's heritage

Indology.AI is a mission-driven initiative built on collaboration between AI engineers, classical scholars, linguists and passionate volunteers. There are many ways to contribute — no matter your background.

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Manuscript Transcription

Help digitise and transcribe Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and other classical manuscripts from our partner libraries and archives. No prior training required — guided onboarding provided.

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Translation & Review

Native or advanced speakers of Sanskrit, Pali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu or Persian can help verify AI translations and contribute scholarly annotations to the knowledge base.

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Research Contribution

Academics and researchers can contribute essays, articles, primary source analyses and bibliography to the Indology.AI encyclopaedia — credited and peer-linked.

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Technology & Development

Developers, ML engineers and linguists can contribute to our open-source Sanskrit NLP toolkit, OCR models and knowledge graph infrastructure on GitHub.

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Questions, collaborations, media enquiries or manuscript contributions — we'd love to hear from you.

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