ICCR on Thursday signed an MoU with Google to ease searching the Internet in Sanskrit and provided the search engine giant one lakh commonly used sentences in the language with their English and Hindi translations.

The MoU was signed here in presence of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) president Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and senior officials of Google.

ICCR and Google are collaborating to improve the Sanskrit translation. This will help Google improve AI or machine learning technology for translating Sanskrit text to various other languages and vice versa, Sahasrabuddhe said. “For India, Sanskrit is not just a language. It is the path to understanding India’s wisdom and soul. Sanskrit language and literature are a vast repository of knowledge encompassing all spheres of life,” he said adding that ICCR intends to disseminate this knowledge globally through Google.