---
task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- sa
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---
## 📊 Dataset Creation & Processing

### Source Datasets

We processed **9 different Sanskrit datasets** containing various types of Sanskrit texts:

| Dataset | Source | Approx Texts Found | Column Used |
|---------|--------|-------------|-------------|
| [snskrt/Sanskrit_shlokas](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Sanskrit_shlokas) | General Sanskrit verses | 194,332 | text |
| [snskrt/Vishnu_Samhita](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Vishnu_Samhita) | Vishnu Samhita | 2,589 | Sanskrit |
| [snskrt/Vyakaran](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Vyakaran) | Tokenized Sanskrit | 615,671 | Sanskrit |
| [snskrt/Ramayan](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Ramayan) | Ramayana | 23,397 | shlok |
| [snskrt/Sanskrit_OCR_Parallel_Corpus](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Sanskrit_OCR_Parallel_Corpus) | Image labels | 6,265 | shlok |
| [snskrt/Mahabharat](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Mahabharat) | Mahabharata | 73,791 | Sanskrit |
| [snskrt/Shrimad_Bhagvat_Puran](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Shrimad_Bhagvat_Puran) | Bhagavata Purana | 14,213 | Sanskrit |
| [snskrt/Agni_Puran](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Agni_Puran) | Agni Purana | 10,940 | Sanskrit |
| [snskrt/Bhavishya_Puran](https://huggingface.co/datasets/snskrt/Bhavishya_Puran) | Bhavishya Purana | 26,212 | Sanskrit |

### Data Cleaning Process

#### What was removed:
- ✅ English numbers (0-9)
- ✅ English letters (a-z, A-Z)
- ✅ Non-Sanskrit characters
- ✅ Duplicate texts (303,306 duplicates removed)

#### What was preserved:
- ✅ Sanskrit Devanagari characters (U+0900-U+097F)
- ✅ Sanskrit punctuation: । ॥ (danda, double danda)
- ✅ Common punctuation: , . : ; ! ? ( ) [ ] { } " ' - —
- ✅ Whitespace and line breaks
- ✅ Zero-width joiner/non-joiner (U+200C, U+200D)