# Chitrakāvya resources

*Texts, translations, papers and tools for Sanskrit visual verse and the combinatorics inside it.*

# Papers, books, repositories, primary texts.

Every link here was checked when the archive was rebuilt. Where an original link had died, the replacement is recorded in the map at the end.

Primary and semi-primary texts

| Title | Author, date | Link | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pādukāsahasra (overview) | Vedānta Deśika, c. 1300 CE | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paduka_Sahasra) | Wikipedia |
| Pādukāsahasra, full text with translation | Vedānta Deśika | [prapatti.com](https://www.prapatti.com/categories/paadukaasahasram.php) | prapatti.com |
| Pādukāsahasra, public-domain edition | Vedānta Deśika | [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.495568) | Internet Archive |
| Kāvyālaṅkāra | Rudraṭa, c. 9th c. CE | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudrata) | Earliest extant treatise with the knight's-tour figure (turagapadabandha) |
| Śiśupālavadha | Māgha, c. 7th–8th c. CE | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishupala_Vadha) | Canto XIX: chitrakāvya and bandha experiments |
| Kirātārjunīya | Bhāravi | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir%C4%81t%C4%81rjun%C4%ABya) | Early palindromic and dual-reading verses |
| Kāvyādarśa | Daṇḍin |  | Taxonomy of citra and alaṅkāra; standard reference |

Peer-reviewed papers and project materials

| Title | Author, date | Link | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Knight's Tour Problem and Rudraṭa's Verse (Resonance 25(8): 1095–1116) | S. Joshi, S. Sridharan, 2020 | [link.springer.com](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12045-020-1026-7) | Also open access at ias.ac.in |
| Sound, Image and Meaning: Many Aspects of Sanskrit Figurative Poetry | A. Pollastri | [academia.edu](https://academia.edu/8786970/Sound_image_and_meaning._Many_aspects_of_Sanskrit_figurative_poetry) | Open-access PDF |
| Finding Knight's Tours on an M×N Chessboard with O(MN) Algorithm | S. Ghosh, R. Sridhar | [iiitb.ac.in](https://www.iiitb.ac.in/Ganaka/projects/Chitrakavya/downloads/00281427.pdf) | IIITB Ganaka mirror |
| Knight's Tour in the Pādukāsahasra, Haravijaya, etc. | IIITB-CSL | [iiitb.ac.in](https://www.iiitb.ac.in/Ganaka/projects/paduka/paduka.html) | Project page |

Long-form essays and secondary sources

| Title | Author | Link | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chitrakavya · Chitrabandha (essay series) | Sreenivasa Rao | [sreenivasaraos.com](https://sreenivasaraos.com/2012/10/10/chitrakavya-chitrabandha/) | The most readable long-form English introduction |
| Introduction to Sanskrit Chitrakavya | Open Pathshala | [openpathshala.com](https://openpathshala.com/sanskrit-chitrakavya) |  |
| Pādukāsahasram by Vedanta Desika | Bridge-India | [bridge-india.blogspot.com](http://bridge-india.blogspot.com/2011/08/paduka-sahasram-by-vedanta-desika.html) |  |
| A spatial palindrome śloka | Vagartham | [vagartham.wordpress.com](https://vagartham.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/a-spatial-palindrome-sloka/) |  |
| Citrakāvya (4): Bandhas | Wisdomlib | [wisdomlib.org](https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/essay/shishupala-vadha-study/d/doc1150140.html) | Canto-by-canto digest |
| The Dexterous Deśika | Sridhārśanam | [sridharshanam.org](https://sridharshanam.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Dextreous-Desika_1.pdf) | Hagiographic, informative |

Reference articles

| Title | Link |
| --- | --- |
| Chitra-kavya | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitra-kavya) |
| Knight's tour | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour) |
| Hamiltonian path | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path) |
| Magic square | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square) |
| Constrained writing | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing) |
| Oulipo | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo) |
| Anuṣṭubh metre | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anu%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%ADubh) |
| Devanāgarī | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari) |
| Haravijaya | [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haravijaya) |

Open-source code and data

| Repository | Link | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| koushikr/Chitrakavya | [github.com](https://github.com/koushikr/Chitrakavya) | NLP toolkit for tagging Sanskrit corpora |
| vrraghy/chitrakaavya | [vrraghy.github.io](https://vrraghy.github.io/chitrakaavya/) | Sister site cataloguing constrained Sanskrit verses |
| sgalal/knights-tour-visualization | [github.com](https://github.com/sgalal/knights-tour-visualization) | Divide-and-conquer solver with visualisation |
| oliver-pham/knights-tour | [github.com](https://github.com/oliver-pham/knights-tour) | Warnsdorff's heuristic |
| lostjared/Knights\_Tour.JavaScript | [github.com](https://github.com/lostjared/Knights_Tour.JavaScript) | HTML5 canvas, easy to read |
| ambuda-org/vidyut | [github.com](https://github.com/ambuda-org/vidyut) | Sanskrit software infrastructure: sandhi, derivation, tagging |
| AI4Bharat/indicnlp\_catalog | [github.com](https://github.com/AI4Bharat/indicnlp_catalog) | Catalogue of Indic NLP resources |

Licenses are not stated here. Check each repository before reuse.

Link replacement map

| Original (dead) | Replacement | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| iiitb.ac.in/csl/projects/Chitrakavya/downloads/01331065.pdf (IEEE link rot) | Joshi and Sridharan, Resonance 2020, plus the IIITB Ganaka mirror | Substitution |
| CSL visuals.html videos and animations (Flash-era media) | SVG figures under Visuals and the interactive under Knight's Tour | Rebuilt, not archived |
| learnsanskrit.html declension-table download | ambuda-org/vidyut | Modern, maintained replacement |

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