Sanskrit Sanskrit Dictionaries – Sabdakalpadruma & Vachaspatyam December 27, 2009
Posted by bharateeya in Dictionary, Free Ebooks, Sanskrit.Tags: lexicon, radhakanta deva, sabdakalpadruma, sanskrit dictionary, taranatha tarkavachaspati, vacaspatyam, vachaspatyam
add a comment
Sanskrit Dictionaries – General Introduction
The history of Sanskrit dictionary is, perhaps, older than that of the Sanskrit Grammar. It got started with Vedic Concordance named ‘Nighantu’. In reality, instead of being a dictionary, Nighantu is more or less a word. During later period, various dictionaries were compiled but, unfortunately, we have lost their original scripts.
Amara Simha’s ‘Amarakosa’ has been considered to be the oldest and most popular compilation. It is also known as Namalinganusasana. in later period, Halayudha-kosa, Vaijayanti-kosa, Mankha-kosa, Nama-mala and Anekartha-samgraha etc. names are worth mentioning.
Two voluminous dictionaries compiled in the 19th century are – Vacaspatyam and Sabdakalpadruma, which stand apart their modern style and technique, Both the volumes are replete with the quotes from the contemporary literature to explain the words convincingly. These, thus may be called a bridge between the dictionary and the encyclopedia.
In the modern times, Sanskrit English Dictionary of H.H. Wilsonm, W. Monier and Sanskrit Worterbuch of Oto Bohtlingk’s and Sanskrit English Dictionary by Vamana Sivarama Apte are the excellent works in this tradition.
Sabda Kalpadruma: A Comprehensive Sanskrit Dictionary in 5 volumes
Sabdakalpadruma
Sabda Kalpadruma is a well known Sanskrit lexicon compiled by a few Bengali scholars at the instance of Raja Radhakanta Deb of Bengal. In this book, the words have been analyzed into their base-forms and suffixes, their genders determined and their Sanskrit synonyms noted.
Download Sabda Kalpadrumam
Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5
Vacaspatyam: A Comprehensive Sanskrit Dictionaryin 6 volumes
Vacaspatyam is a Sanskrit Lexicon, of 5442 pages, by Pandit Taranatha Tarkavacaspati, Calcutta. It is very full up to the end of the letter Pa (page 4550), whilst the rest of the alphabet is squeezed into 900 pages! It is said that the Bengal Govt, which largely subsidized the undertaking, ordered it to be curtailed. If that is so, it did a very unwise thing! (Col. GA Jacob in “A Handful Of Popular Maxims Current In Sanskrit Literature”)
Download Vachaspatyam
Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6
Upanishad Vakya Kosa – A Concordance of the Principal Upanishads & Bhagavadgita August 4, 2009
Posted by bharateeya in Dictionary, Free Ebooks, Sanskrit.1 comment so far
One of the major difficulties in appreciating the various commentaries on Vedanta Sutras and other ancient Indian philosophical texts is that numerous citations from the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita are found in them without any exact authenticated reference to the original source. With a view to overcoming this difficulty by providing relevant cross-references, as also to furnishing useful material to students of philology and lexicography, Col. G. A. Jacob has compiled this book. This volume owes its existence to a pressing sense of need.
Amara Kosa – the Sanskrit Thesaurus with notes & index July 12, 2009
Posted by bharateeya in Dictionary, Free Ebooks, Sanskrit.Tags: amara, amarakosa, dictionary, lexicon, samskritam, Sanskrit, thesaurus
2 comments
Amarakosa, Amarasinha’s Sanskrit thesaurus well-known to every Sanskrit student, is the oldest work of the kind now extant. According to tradition Amarasimha was one of the nine distinguished men (nava ratna) of the court of King Vikramaditya (4th Century CE).
The Amarakosha consists of verses that can be easily memorized. It is divided into three khandas or chapters. The first, svargadi-khanda (“heaven and others”) has words pertaining to gods and heavens. The second, bhuvargadi-khanda (“earth and others”) deals with words about earth, towns, animals and humans. The third, samanyadi-khanda (“common”) has words related to grammar and other miscellaneous words.
It is of great interest to note that, though the production of a Buddhist, it has been universally accepted as an authority by the Brahmans and the Jainas alike. The fact that it has been commented upon by Buddhists like Subhutichandra, by Jainas like Asadharapandita and Nachiraja,and by Brahmans like Kshirasvamin, Mallinatha and Appayyadikshita testifies to its usefulness to every class of Sanskrit students. It is a well-known fact that translations of the Amarakosha into Chinese and Thibetan have been recently discovered.
Sanskrit English Dictionary Widget July 5, 2009
Posted by bharateeya in Dictionary, Sanskrit.add a comment
This dictionary is powered by Arthur Anthony McDonell’s ‘A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary’. You can do a dictionary lookup for a Sanskrit phrase, or a reverse-lookup of an English word.
Feel free to grab this dictionary widget for your website or blog.
Sanskrit English Dictionary – V S Apte April 10, 2009
Posted by bharateeya in Dictionary, Free Ebooks, Sanskrit.Tags: apte, dictionary, ebook, free ebook, language, samskrit, Sanskrit, sanskrit dictionary
add a comment
The Student’s Sanskrit-English Dictionary meets the need of the English knowing reader who is interested in the study of classical as well as modern Sanskrit. It covers a very large field- epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Puranas and Upapuranas, Smrti and Niti literature, Darsanas or systems of Philosophy, such as Nyaya, Vedanta, Mimamsa, Sankhya and Yoga, Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry in all its Branches, Dramatic and Narrative literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Botany, Astronomy, Music and other technical or scientific branches of learning.
॥सा मे वसतु जिह्वाग्रे ब्रह्मरूपा सरस्वती॥
