PS: In case you’re wondering - the below sponsorship invitation has mostly been futile, and we’ve relied on family funds. (Details- dyuganga org page.)
Intro
Donate to Dharma via Vishvas if you:
- like his creations and endeavors (described below), to which he is incidentally dedicated full-time
- trust him to honestly use all money received here towards dharma.
- either agree with his worldview, or acknowledge to yourself that it differs from yours.
PS: Vishvas is an individual - donations made via him are not tax-deductible.
Sponsor what?
Briefly, sponsorship will support open source (sanskrit/ jyotisha etc..) software, book digitization/ presentation, audio recording/ presentation, dictionary, text commentary projects.
Sponsorship will help with these open source projects:
- Free open source software - See various repos under orgs such as sanskrit-programmers, jyotisha, indic-dict etc. (Full list under github profile).
- Book digitizations. Examples -
- saMskAraratnamAlA, an excellent KYV paddhati text especially popular in mahArAShTra (albeit belonging to the closely related hiraNyakeshI sUtra). This was executed by saMskRtabhAratI people (at their expense) after I suggested the text to them.
- SC Vasu’s English commentary on aShTAdhyAyI ( example here ), sponsored by shrI nIlesh of ashyadhyayi.com .
- Publishing and distributing useful dictionaries - See repos under indic-dict for example.
- Producing audio books and recordings - See here for example.
- Presentation of corrected, flowing text with audio tracks. The text will (just like our audio files) be made available for free in markdown format - anyone can copy and reuse. Examples of such text with audio presentations:
- rAmAyaNa
- raghuvaMsha
- kumArasambhava
- durgA saptashatI
- rAmacharitamAnasa
- nArAyaNIyam
- several sAmans etc..
- Original, easy to follow, commentary on (mostly sanskrit) classical texts. Examples:
- Apastamba gRhya and dharma sUtra-s
- The first prapAThaka of first kANDa of kRShNa yajurveda
Execution
- I do much of the work myself. I also take (well-)paid support from other learned people via the dyuganga team.
Donation avenues
- Sponsor some projects? Contact Vishvas.
India
- UPI (Unified Payment Interface, for use in GooglePay, PhonePe, PayTM etc..):
- vishvasid@ybl
- Or use my phone number
USA and others
- Use xoom.com to send money to UPI id mentioned for India above.
- donorbox.org/dharma-via-vishvas (USD. Preferred for ACH.)
- Charges we incur as of 2019: No donorbox fees upto 1k$. Payment processing costs:
- 2.9% + 30c via stripe/ paypal
- 0.8% + A Cap Of $5 ACH bank transfers
- Charges we incur as of 2019: No donorbox fees upto 1k$. Payment processing costs:
- Github sponsors - Just use the sponsor button on the profile page. Intro.
- Patreon
- Fees we incur as of 2020:
- $3 or less → 5% + $0.10
- over $3 → 2.9% + $0.30
- Additional 1% for non-US PayPal payments
- 0.25$ when we move money received to bank account.
- Fees we incur as of 2020:
- Paypal personal transfer - paypal.me/vishvasv , charges
- Within US: No fee if using bank account, 2.9% + fixed fee if using credit card
- Paypal biz (allows credit cards) here .
- Charges we incur as of 2019: 2.9% + 30c