Sanskrit Translation Services
DHCTranslations translates Sanskrit documents in the US, and the file that most often needs one is a religious worker petition: a temple or ashram sponsor must show that its priest holds a traditional qualification, and the evidence is an award in Sanskrit naming a title no US reader recognizes. A document costs $54, statement and PDF included.
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Sanskrit documents we translate for US files
Degree certificate
An award from a Sanskrit institution, with the title conferred and the year recorded.
Marksheet
The record of examinations, paper by paper, with the marks and the division as recorded.
Ordination and lineage letters
Letters conferring priestly office or lineage, translated in full and described for what they are.
Gift deed
A deed of gift, with the property described, the witnesses named and the registrar's endorsement.
Sale deed
A deed of sale, with the boundaries, the consideration and the chain of witnesses preserved.
Power of attorney
An authority given to act, with the powers granted and the parties as named on the page.
Court order
An order or a judgment, with the case number, the court and the parties reproduced.
Trust and temple records
Trust deeds and temple accounts, with the trustees named and the endowment described.
Texts and manuscripts
Stotras, commentaries and manuscript pages, translated with the meter and the source noted.
Ayurvedic records
Ayurvedic case notes and prescriptions, with the formulation written out and dated as printed.
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What a certified Sanskrit translation costs
Certified translations start at $54 per document: from $0.12 per word after the first 400 words into English, and from $0.14 per word for English into another language, with some pairs quoted higher.
Certification is the translator's signed statement, and it is included in the price.
A translation for USCIS, a US court or a US university is certified by the translator's signed statement, and nothing further is added to the quote.
$54
From, per document
$0.12+
Per word after 400, into English
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What a certified Sanskrit translation is checked for
A religious worker petition turns on whether the sponsor and the priest can be shown to belong to the same tradition, and on whether the qualification is genuine. The translation serves both questions without overstating either.
What the certification includes
- Signed statement of accuracy: the translator's name, signature and date, their CIOL or ITI membership number, our company stamp and our contact details.
- Script and era are named: the letters the page was printed in and the era its dates use are stated, so a reader comparing the translation to the original knows what the differences are before noticing them.
- The title is left to the evaluator: the award is translated by the title it carries and the body that conferred it, with no equivalence asserted, since that judgment belongs to a credential service.
- Certified PDF: the certified file is emailed at no extra cost, which is what a US filing accepts. A printed set can be arranged if a receiving body insists on paper, and is quoted per order.
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The qualification is real, the title is unfamiliar
A Sanskrit award names a title rather than a degree in the modern sense, and the awarding institution rather than a university system. The translation gives the title, the institution and the year, and leaves the equivalence to an evaluator, because a translator who converts an acharya into a master's degree has made a claim the paper does not support.
Degree certificate
- On the Sanskrit document
- उपाधिपत्र
- Issued by
- the institution that conferred it
Marksheet
- On the Sanskrit document
- अंकपत्र
- Issued by
- the institution, or the examining board
Gift deed
- On the Sanskrit document
- दानपत्र
- Issued by
- executed before a sub-registrar
Sale deed
- On the Sanskrit document
- विक्रयपत्र
- Issued by
- executed before a sub-registrar
Power of attorney
- On the Sanskrit document
- अधिकारपत्र
- Issued by
- authenticated by the registering officer
Court order
- On the Sanskrit document
- न्यायालय आदेश
- Issued by
- the court that passed it
Three things about a Sanskrit page surprise a US reader. It is not always in Devanagari, since southern institutions have printed Sanskrit in Grantha, Telugu and Kannada letters, so the script is stated rather than assumed. The year is often given in an era of its own, and a date of 1947 in that era is not 1947 in the Gregorian calendar, so the era is named and the Gregorian equivalent given in the certification instead of being substituted silently. And an ordination or lineage letter is not a certificate of anything a US form has a field for, so it is translated in full and described for what it is.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“Nine papers were listed in Devanagari figures with a division at the foot, and every mark was carried across with its paper name intact.”
Meera I.
“The certificate named the university and the year in Vikram Samvat, and the translation gave both the era date and the Gregorian one without losing the original.”
Rohit G.
“The deed ran to four pages of traditional formulas, and the translator kept the witness chain and the property description in the order they appeared.”
Vasant D.
The certification, the price and the turnaround are the same for Sanskrit documents sent from anywhere in the United States. Start with the page that matches what you need:
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations translates Sanskrit papers in the US, from awards and marksheets to deeds, trust records, ordination letters and court orders, each with a signed statement from the translator.
It is the part a translator can supply. The petition also turns on the sponsor's tax status and on the priest's role, and the award is the evidence that the qualification exists. What the certificate says is translated in full, including the title and the body that conferred it.
DHCTranslations charges $54 for a document up to 400 words, then $0.12 per word into English or $0.14 from English into Sanskrit, with the statement and PDF included.
It is a traditional title, and whether it equates to a master's is a judgment for a credential evaluator. The translation gives the title and the institution, and asserts no equivalence of its own.
Sanskrit documents often use an era of their own, commonly Vikram Samvat or the Shaka era, and the same number means a different year in each. The era is named as printed and the Gregorian equivalent is given in the certification.
Southern institutions have printed Sanskrit in Grantha, Telugu and Kannada letters, and manuscripts in other southern scripts exist too. The script is identified in the certification rather than assumed from the language.
A translation is accepted with the full text present and the translator's statement signed, and both are supplied with the order. Send the award as issued, seal and signatures intact.
Yes. Deeds follow a formula with a witness chain, and the order of the witnesses and the property description are kept exactly as printed, because a court reads the sequence as part of the instrument.
Yes, where it sits in a file, such as a stotra quoted in a court paper or a passage in a trust record. Those are translated with the source and the meter noted rather than paraphrased.
Yes. DHCTranslations charges $0.14 per word from English into Sanskrit, written by a scholar of the language rather than transliterated from Hindi.
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