About the Vedic Society API

This API contains the meanings of all nouns, except proper nouns, from the entire vedic corpus. Vedic literature comprises four vedas (Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharv). Each veda is a set of these articles:

Samhitas: Hymns or songs to gods
Brahmanas: Instructions on rituals
Upanishads: Philosophical discourses

All of these are reckoned for this API. The data is from the following books: :

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects, by A. A. Macdonell and A. B. Keith (Volume 1 and Volume 2)
Vedic Mythology, by A. A. Macdonell
The Nighantu and the Nirukta of Sri Yaskacharya, by Lakshman Sarup
The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, by V. S. Apte

The data is returned in the following format:

SchemaExample response

{
  "nagari": "string",
  "word": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "category": "string"
}

{
    "category": "law",
    "description": "thief",
    "nagari": "तायु",
    "word": "tayu"
}

The nouns are categorised into flora, fauna, geography, food, relationships, and more groups. The JSON response contains the word in the Nagari script, the word transliterated into the Roman script, the meaning of the word, and the category the word belongs to.

About the Vedic Society API

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