Development Team
The minds behind the digital exploration of the Rigveda
Dr Eren Gultepe
Associate Professor & Project Lead
NLP · Digital Humanities · Behavioural Research
About Eren
Conceived the project and guides its research in natural language processing, network analysis, and the design of the visualizations.
Asha Shah
Researcher & Lead Developer
NLP · Information Retrieval · Sanskrit NLP · Visualization · Web Development
About Asha
Designed and built the current RikNetra system. Developed the Chunk-LSA hymn embeddings and compared clustering across two English translations and two Sanskrit representations, created the Horizontal Tree 2-Hop search method for English, and built Sanskrit search in Devanagari and IAST. Also developed the website and its interactive D3.js visualizations.
Venkatesh Bollineni
Researcher & Earlier Contributor
NLP · LLMs · Gen AI · Agentic AI · RAG
About Venkatesh
Contributed to the earlier research that first mapped communities of Rigvedic hymns, on which RikNetra builds. AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation.
Our Technology Stack
About RikNetra
RikNetra is an open-source project dedicated to making the Rigveda accessible through modern technology. Readers can search all 1,028 hymns by theme in English, Sanskrit, or IAST, read each hymn side by side in translation and in the original, and explore how hymns are connected. Our goal is to bridge ancient wisdom with contemporary digital tools for researchers, students, and enthusiasts worldwide.
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