विद्या विनयं ददाति, कौशलं कर्मसु च श्रियम्।
तस्मात् प्रयत्नः कर्तव्यो, येन भाति स्वकर्मणि।
Knowledge gives humility, skill brings excellence in work.
Therefore, effort must be made, by which one shines in their own deeds.
Education
• PhD 2003 - 2009
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai PhD Dissertation Title: Bhartṛhari’s Concept of Jāti: A Study with Special Reference to the Jātisamuddeśa of Vākyapadīya.
Philosophy Courses: Introduction to Western Logic, Theory of Knowledge, Pāṇinian Grammar, Introduction to Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Indian Philosophy of Language (CPI:8.45)
• P. G. Diploma in Sanskrit Linguistics July. 2002 - 2003
Center for Advanced Study in Sanskrit (CASS), University of Pune, Pune.
• UGC NET (with Sanskrit Grammar) Dec. 2002
• M.A. in Sanskrit Grammar, (Grades: 70%) 2000 - 2002
University of Pune, Pune
• B.A. Sanskrit. (Grades: 73%) 1997- 2000
North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon.
Traditional Exams
• Saṃkīrṇa-abhijña November 2002
Vedaśāstrottejaka Sabhā, Pune.
Work Experience
• Department of Computer Science July 2022 - (Present)
• Center for Continuing Education (Sanskrit Language Program)
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur. May 2020 - June 2022
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur. Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
• Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Department
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur. March 2014 - September 2015
• Research Associate Center for Indian Language Technology
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Jan 2009 - September 2011
• Teaching Assistant Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. July 2003 - December 2008
• Project Fellow Govt. of India Project “Sanskrit E-learning”
Department of Sanskrit, Pune University, Pune. May 2002 - August 2002
Books
Malhar Kulkarni and Chaitali Dangarikar, editors. Recent Researches in Sanskrit Computational
Linguistics, Fifth International Symposium IIT Mumbai, India, January 2013, Delhi, 2013. DK
Printworld.
Dangarikar, Chaitali., Bhattacharya, A., Karthika, N. J., Terdalkar H. , Bhattacharyya, P., Kulkarni A., Lakkundi, C. S., Ramakrishnan, G., Shivani, V. Samanvaya: An Interlingua for Unity of Indian Languages, October 2024. Central Sanskrit University. New Delhi.
Dangarikar, Chaitali, Bhartrhari: An Ancient Cognitive Linguist of the Grammatical Tradition of Sanskrit. [Forthcoming]
Chaitali Dangarikar. Translation of the Jātisamuddeśa (chapter 1 of the third book of the Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari) with the commentary Prakīrṇa-Prakāśa of Helārāja. (in process)
Papers
Akavarapu, V. S. D. S. M., Hrishikesh Terdalkar, Pramit Bhattacharyya, Pralay Manna, Vishakha Deulgaonkar, Shubhangi Agarwal, Chaitali Dangarikar, and Arnab Bhattacharya. "RAG to the Rescue: Investigating Question Answering in Sanskrit with Large Language Models." ACL ARR 2024 October Submission.
Anurag Gupta and Chaitali Dangarikar. “Design, construction, and material of an ancient Indian string instrument.” International Symposium on Music Acoustics, September 2019, Detmold, Germany <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335921609_Design_construction_and_material_of_an_ancient_Indian_string_instrument?msclkid=85b54054cefd11eca0e756013838e216>
Chaitali Dangarikar, Malhar Kulkarni and Tanjua Ajotikar. "Adverbs in Sanskrit Wordnet." Proceedings 8th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2010), Kharagpur.<http://www.cfilt.iitb.ac.in/wordnet/webhwn/IndoWordnetPapers/02_iwn_Adverbs%20in %20SWN.pdf>
Chaitali Dangarikar and Malhar Kulkarni. "Helārāja’s description of ontological semantics based on Bhartṛhari’s ontology." Journal of the Oriental Institute, 59(1-2):11–34, 2009.
Chaitali Dangarikar and Malhar Kulkarni. "Helārāja on eight padārthas." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, 83:07–19, 2009=10.
Malhar Kulkarni, Anuja Ajotikar, Tanuja Ajotikar, Dipesh Katira, Chinmay Dharurkar, and Chaitali Dangarikar. "Headedness and modification in Nyaya morpho-syntactic analysis: Towards a bracket-parsing model." In Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, pages 106–123, 2010.
Malhar Kulkarni and Chaitali Dangarikar. "Web concordance of the Prakīrṇa-Prakāśa of Helārāja on the Jātisamuddeśa (3.1) of Vākyapadīya." In Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, pages 144–153, 2009.
Malhar Kulkarni, Chaitali Dangarikar, Irawati Kulkarni, Abhishek Nanda, and Pushpak
Bhattacharyya. "Introducing Sanskrit Wordnet." In 5th International Conference on Global Wordnet
(GWC2010), 2010.
Malhar Kulkarni, Chaitali Dangarikar, Irawati Kulkarni, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. "Gloss in
Sanskrit Wordnet." In Sanskrit Computational Linguistics, pages 190–197, 2010.
Papers Presented
Design of Ekatantri-vina,. All India Oriental Conference, Udupi, October 2024.
Dharma-centric Mahābhārata tradition, IIT Kanpur, 15 February 2018.
Imagining the urban: Sanskrit literature and city in Seminar on Ancient Indian Architecture, IIT Kanpur 8-9 November 2014.
Introduction to Sanskrit Wordnet, K. J. Somaiyya College, Mumbai. Jan 2011.
Contribution of Prof. Ashok Aklujkar to Sanskrit Language and Literature in Contribution of
Maharashtra to Sanskrit Language and Linguistics, CASS, University of Pune (Pune) 26-29 March 2008.
From Dhvani to Sphoṭa: A journey with Bhartṛhari in Contribution of Sanskrit to Language and
Linguistics, CASS, University of Pune (Pune) 17-19 March 2008.
Sanskrit Grammarians and Neuro-biological Studies of Language in International Sanskrit
Conference (Nagpur) 7-9 Oct. 2007.
Bhartṛhari’s Ontology: The ontology of the Grammar School in International Philosophy Day
Seminar, IIT Bombay (Mumbai) Feb 2007.
Helārāja on eight padārthas in 13th World Sanskrit Conference (Edinburgh, Scotland) 10th-14th July, 2006.
Concept of Upacāra-sattā in Bhartṛhari’s Philosophy of language in 80th Indian Philosophical Congress (Siliguri) 2005.
Word-universal in Bhartṛhari’s Philosophy in 79th Indian Philosophical Congress (Madurai) 2004.
Lut-lakāra in Brihan-Maharashtra-Prāacya-Vidyā-Pariṣad (Goa) 2004.
Prathamā Vibhakti Kāraka vā Kāraketara Acārya Limaye Carcāsatra (Pune) 2002.
Gatyarthaka-dhātus in Ṛgveda (in Marathi) with Dipti Rembhotakar and Leena Hunnargikar in Acārya Limaye Carcāsatra (Pune) 2002.
Krādi niyama in All India Oriental Conference (Jagannāthpuri) 2002.
Workshops and Seminars
• Second National Workshop of IndoWordnet, Guwahati University, Shillong April 2010
• Workshop on Sanskrit and Computers, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad December 2009
• First National Workshop on Wordnet Creation, Amrita University, Coimbatore June 2009
• Vedic Sanskrit Meeting for the Vedic Sanskrit Coding Scheme: C-DAC, Mumbai April 2007
• Lexical Resources in Indian Languages C-DAC, Mumbai March 2007
• Sandhi Workshop, Asiatic Society, Mumbai Feb. 2007
• An Introduction to Historic Indian Coins and their Manufacturing Technique IIRNS,
Pune Feb. 2006
• Workshop on Sanskrit Translation Database Creation, CIIL Mysore and Department of H&SS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Dec. 2004
• Translation, Interpretation, Culture: Issues and Trends, CIIL Mysore and Department of H&SS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai Dec. 2004
• International Morphology Workshop Central Institute for Indian Languages, Mysore Dec. 2003
To the profession
• Bhandarkar Oriental Institute (Life member) since 2004
Academic Honours
Teaching Assistant Fellowship (IIT Bombay) 2003
Gold Medal for securing first rank in M.A (Grammar) (Pune University) 2003
Gold Medal for securing first rank in M.A (Sanskrit+Ardhamagadhi) (Pune University) 2003
First rank in B.A. Sanskrit (North Maharashtra University) 2000
First rank in B.A. Sanskrit (State Govt. of Maharashtra) 2000
Gold medal in All India Sanskrit Debate Competition (Vikram University) 1998
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