Vaijayantīkośa Knowledge-Net
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Description
A kośa (lexicon) is a literary work that provides a comprehensive understanding of words
by arranging them along with their synonyms and other words that are semantically
related. Its format has been designed to include not just ontological classification, but
to give a holistic idea of a concept represented by the word. This allows a thorough
understanding of the words, and also the knowledge they embody. Vaijayantīkośa is a
popular Sanskrit lexicon that contains words from spoken language as well as those used
in Vedic literature. To facilitate the dissemination of this knowledge, a web-based tool,
Vaijayantīkośa KnowledgeNet is created for easy access and analysis of the words in
the kośa. The objective of the tool is to provide information to researchers from different
fields of study to explore the knowledge contained in the kośa with the help of synsets
and ontological structure.