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 the following books:
- Samhitas: Hymns or songs to gods
- Brahmanas: Instructions on rituals
- Upanishads: Philosophical discourses
All of these are reckoned for this API.
Response is in the following format:
{
"nagari": "string",
"word": "string",
"description": "string",
"category": "string"
}
Here’s an example response:
{
"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.