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This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff. Convert between IAST, Balaram, Harvard-Kyoto, Velthius, and Ukrainian encodings for Sanskrit transliteration.

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SansConverter for Obsidian

An Obsidian plugin for converting between Sanskrit transliteration encodings. Based on the SansConverter desktop app.

Supported Encodings

  • IAST (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration)
  • Balaram (used in many Vaiṣṇava publications, legacy)
  • Harvard-Kyoto (ASCII-friendly encoding)
  • Velthius (ASCII-friendly encoding using digraphs)
  • Ukrainian IAST (Cyrillic-based transliteration)

Available Conversions

From To
Harvard-Kyoto IAST
Harvard-Kyoto Ukrainian
Velthius IAST
Velthius Ukrainian
Balaram (legacy) IAST
Balaram (legacy) Ukrainian
IAST Balaram (legacy)
IAST Ukrainian
IAST Harvard-Kyoto
Ukrainian IAST

Installation

Manual Installation

  1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release
  2. Create a folder <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/sansconverter/ and place both files there
  3. Reload Obsidian
  4. Go to Settings → Community plugins and enable "SansConverter"

Using BRAT (Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester)

  1. Install BRAT from Community Plugins
  2. Open BRAT settings and click "Add Beta plugin"
  3. Enter this repository URL: https://github.com/kosperun/obsidian-sansconverter
  4. Enable the plugin in Community plugins

Usage

  1. Select the text you want to convert
  2. Open the command palette (Cmd/Ctrl + P)
  3. Search for "Convert selection" and choose your desired conversion
  4. The selected text will be replaced with the converted version

Setting Hotkeys

For faster workflow, assign custom hotkeys:

  1. Go to Settings → Hotkeys
  2. Search for "SansConverter"
  3. Assign your preferred key combinations

Suggested hotkeys:

  • Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + I → IAST → Balaram
  • Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + B → Balaram → IAST
  • etc.

Examples

Input (Balaram, legacy) Output (IAST)
Kåñëa Kṛṣṇa
Input (Harvard-Kyoto) Output (IAST)
KRSNa Kṛṣṇa
Input (Velthius) Output (IAST)
K.r.s.na Kṛṣṇa
Input (IAST) Output (Ukrainian)
Kṛṣṇa Кр̣шн̣а

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit issues or pull requests.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

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