Sanskrit Mantra Classification using Speech Processing.

What is it about?

Chandas is a classification metric used in Sanskrit Mantras. They are essentially meant to maintain a form of rhythm for each and every mantra. Essentially, Chandas are the meters used to keep track of the mantras. Chandas formulate the rhythm of the mantra and the way that it should be chanted. Based on the number of syllables, there are seven different Chandas, and mantras are usually classified into one of these seven. Identification of Chandas is usually specified in the beginning before chanting; however, in cases where the Chandas are not specified, one may have to do it manually, which may be cumbersome, especially for Chandas with many syllables. In this work, we propose a approach to determine the Chanda of a mantra, given the audio file of a Sanskrit mantra and using Deep learning architectures. The proposed SanS predicts the type of Chanda by counting the number of syllables, giving 81.57% accuracy compared to other works.

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