Rajneesh Kumar Pandey

Research Scholar
Special Center for Sanskrit Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067 (INDIA)
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e-mail: rajneeshp1988@gmail.com ,
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Educational Qualifications

B.A. (2007):        Sanskrit, Philosophy and Ancient History, University Of Allahabad, Allahabad
M.A. (2009):        Sanskrit, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
M.Phil. (2011):    "Online Indexing Of Sushrut Samhita" Special Center for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Research Interest : Computational Linguistics and Pragmatics, Ayurveda, Semantics,Corpus Linguistics, Basic Linguistic Theory, Language Documentation.

Research Papers and Posters
  • Presented a paper titled "Text encoding and search for Heritage texts at Jawaharlal Nehru University" in WAVES(World Association for Vedic Studies) held at UMAS, Dartmouth, USA, 14 July 2012
  • “Text encoding and search for Āyurvedic texts: An interconnected lexical database” the paper presented in the International Seminar (LREC) held at Istambul, Turkey 26 May, 2012 and published in proceedings online at http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/index.html
  • Presented a paper titled "Dynamic Indexing of Ayurvedic Text Susruta Samhita" in 20th International Congress of Vedanta, JNU, New Delhi and under publication by DK Printworld
  • Presented a poster titled "Database System For Vedantic Texts" in 20th International Congress of Vedanta, JNU, New Delhi


  • Published Books
  • Published a book titled "Text Encoding And Search for Ayurvedic Textx" from LAP Lambert Publishing Academy, Germany on July 30, 2012. The ISBN number of the book is 978-3-659-17874-0


  • Award & Scholarship
  • UP Board Scholarship (2000-02)
  • Merit-cum-Mean Scholarship during MA (2007-09)
  • Awarded "Sanskrit Pratibha Puraskar" by Delhi Sanskrit Academy during MA (2008-09)
  • Qualified UGC-NET and awarded Junior Research Fellowship(JRF) by UGC in June 2009


  • Research Experience
  • Worked as Language Editor in "Sanskrit- Hindi Machine Translation" in 2008, funded by DIT, Govt. of India.
  • Attended a 10 days training programme on "Sandhi-Splitting" in July-August 2008 at Deptt. of Sanskrit, University Of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.


  • Other Activities
  • Attended the two days workshop on "Indian Language Technology and English-Urdu Machine Translation" organised by Special centre for Sanskrit Studies,JNU, New Delhi during 26-27 July, 2012
  • Attended the one day Indian Script(Brāhmi Śārda and Grantha) workshop organised by Microsoft Translator at Special centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi
  • Volunteer at the 20th Vedanta Congress titled " 20th International Congress of Vedanta (20 Vedanta) by Special Center for Sanskrit Studies held at SSS-A,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi during December 28-31, 2011
  • Attended the one day E-learning workshop organised by Special center for Sanskrit Studies, JNU, New Delhi.
  • Volunteer at the 4th International Seminar titled " 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (4i-SCLS) by Special Center for Sanskrit Studies held at SAA,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi during December 10-12, 2010.
  • Volunteer at 3 day National Seminar titled "Greece Beyond Greece" organised by Special Center for Sanskrit Studies at SLL& CS,JNU, New Delhi during March 17-19, 2009.