Vyom A. Shah

Education

Other Qualifications

• Certificate Course in Sāṃkhya Kārikā — National Sanskrit University, Tirupati (2020)
• Certificate Course in Navya Nyāya — National Sanskrit University, Tirupati (2020)
• Saṃskṛta Vīśārada — Bṛhad Gujarat Saṃskṛta Pariṣad (2019)

Traditional Education

• Siddhahemaśabdānuśāsanam (all 8 chapters) — Hemacandra's grammar of Saṃskṛta and Prākṛta. See my digital edition →
• Tattvārthādhigamasūtra with the commentary of Siddhasenagaṇī (chapters 1–7 and 10)

Courses Audited

• Basics of Python — Coursera (on-going, 2025)
• Fundamentals of Rust Programming Language — Coursera (on-going, 2025)
• Indian Knowledge Systems — IIT Gandhinagar (2019)

Employment

Internships

Papers Presented

• Tracing the Identity of Ṛṣabhadeva: From Brahmanical Purāṇas to Jaina Purāṇas — Rushabhayan 2.0, Labdhi Vikram Jan Seva Trust (December 2025)
• Omniscience as known through the works of Devacandra, Yaśovijaya and Ānandaghana — National Seminar on Omniscience in Jain Tradition, B. L. Institute of Indology & ICPR, Delhi (December 2025)
• Learning Traditions of the Siddhahemaśabdānuśāsana and Works Composed Thereupon — 22nd Hemacandrācārya Samāroha, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan (February 2025)
• Prākṛta-Influenced Saṃskṛta: A Survey through the Dvirūpakoṣas — 51st All India Oriental Conference, Udupi (October 2024)
• Influence of Prākṛta on Saṃskṛta with special reference to the Dvirūpakoṣa — 1st National Prakrit Seminar, Rohtak (Shrut Ratnakar) (October 2022)
• Pratyākhyāna: A Comparison of the Pratyākhyānāṣṭaka and the Paccakkhāṇabhāsia — Jain Knowledge Convocation, Koba (December 2022)

Invited Talks

• Non-Pāṇinian Grammatical Traditions — Sanskrit Study Circle (online) (July 2025)

Workshops

• Uniform Technical Vocabulary Creation Training Workshop for Hindi and Indian Languages — Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti, Ministry of Education (GoI) (2025)
• National Workshop on the textual reading of the Kārakāhnika of the Mahābhāṣya — Central Sanskrit University, Sringeri Campus (2024)
• National Workshop on the Tattvārthādhigamasūtra of Umāsvāti — B. L. Institute of Indology, Delhi (2023)
• National Workshop for Saṃskṛta Writers and Translators (Lekhakānuvādakavargaḥ) — Saṃskṛta Bhāratī, Bengaluru (2022)
• Workshop on Indian Epigraphy — University of Pennsylvania (2021)

Conferences Attended

• Conference on Jainology and Prakrit — Patan, Gujarat (2025)
• 3rd National Prakrit Seminar — Gohana, Haryana (2024)
• 2nd National Prakrit Seminar — Rohini, Delhi (2023)
• ICSJP — Florida International University (attended virtually) (2021)

Organisational Roles

• Parallel Session & Volunteer Coordinator, 4th International Jain Conference — Shrut Ratnakar, JAINA, Shri Mahavira Jain Vidyalaya & World Jain Confederation (January 2025)
• Course Manager, 1st–4th Online Prakrit Language Certificate Course — Shrut Ratnakar & Central Sanskrit University (2023–2025)
• Event Co-ordinator, 3rd International Jain Conference — Shrut Ratnakar, JAINA & World Jain Confederation (2024)
• Operations' Lead, 2nd International Jain Conference — Shrut Ratnakar & JAINA (2023)
• Technology Facilitator, Online Course on Sculpture and Temple Architecture — B. L. Institute of Indology (2023)
• Course Curator, Workshop on Tech Resources of Sanskrit — Eklavya Sanskrit Academy (2022)
• Coordinator, 10-day Workshop on Spoken Sanskrit — H. K. Arts College, Ahmedabad (2021)
• Volunteer Co-ordinator, State-Level Workshop on Saṃskṛta Saṃbhāṣaṇa — Saṃskṛta Bhāratī (2019)

Authored Works (Saṃskṛta)

• Vardhamāna Saptaviṃśatikā (verse)
• Raivatādristutiḥ (verse)
• Bhāsa-Nāṭya-Rasāsvādaḥ (prose) — the essence of the thirteen plays of Bhāsa

Translations

• Munisundarasūri's Arbudagirikalpa — Saṃskṛta to Gujarātī (2025)
• Bhoja's Kūrmaśatakadvaya — Prākṛta to Saṃskṛta
• Śrī Kṛṣṇa Nīti (the dictions of Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the Mahābhārata), with Kushagra Aniket — published as Krishna Niti: Timeless Strategic Wisdom (BlueInk, 2024) — Saṃskṛta to English & Hindi
• Kṣemendra's Cārucaryā — Saṃskṛta to English & Hindi (2021)
• Gāhārayaṇakosa (Gāthāratnakośa) of Jineśvarasūri — Prākṛta to Saṃskṛta & English (on-going)
• Raghuvilāsa of Rāmacandrasūri — Saṃskṛta & Prākṛta to English (on-going)
• Sau Cālo Giranāra Jaīye — Gujarati to English (2021)
• A. F. Rudolf Hoernle's Introduction to Caṇḍa's Prākṛta Lakṣaṇa — English to Gujarātī

Programs & Digital Projects

• Prākṛta Noun Form Generator — Python backend, Rust
• Prākṛta Verb Form Generator — Python backend, Rust
• Prakrit Parser (on-going)
• Jaina Literature portal & Siddhahema digital grammar — jaina-literature · shs

Initiatives

• Saṃskṛta Hitāya (with Pāia-Hiāṇam) — Facebook · X
• The Prakrit Blog — X
• Jaina Literature — Google Group

Selected Blog Series

• Macaronic-equivalent Poetry in India (in 3 parts)
• Rāmacandrasūri and his Raghuvilāsa (in 2 parts)
• Tongues and Dictions (in 6 parts)
• Anekārthi Poetry (in 2 parts)

Languages

• Saṃskṛta · High Proficiency
• Prākṛta · High Proficiency
• Apabhraṃśa · Intermediate
• English · High Proficiency
• Hindi · High Proficiency
• Gujarati · Native