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Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1890

But it would not I think be detracting from the niirits of the grdat 41 has in i:s i; finable Dictionary tried to exhaust the meanings of words as far as he could and has also 040 vol-it 1 ) day that it fails to give some of the most common senses of words occurring in such wellicnown and Oft.;. ettribooks as the Uttararamacharita Mudrarakshasa Venisamhara Sisupalavadha or Sirloin*# Mor [...] The third Appendix gives the most important names in the ancient Geography of India with identifications on the modern map wherever ascertained and in this part of the work I have to cordially acknowledge the help I have derived from Cunningham's Ancient Geography but particularly from Mr. [...] In short I have endeavoured to make the PRACTICAL SANSKRIENGLISH DICTIONARY as complete comprehensive and encyclopedic as was possible within the limits of a single compact volume by condensing a very large amount of matter by means of suitable typographical ' nd other arrangements and 1 hope it will be found to be a practically useful and reliable guide in the study of the Sanskrit languag [...] It is obvious that neither time nor the very cheap price at which the work was offered to subscribers would have enabled me to carry on the wor k of compilation on the same scale; and I was therefore obliged to endeavour to curtail the matter by occasionally substituting references for quotations without at the same time marring the usefulness of the work and by abriding explanations of word [...] Monier Williams in his Dictionary but in point of quality more reliable varied and practically useful in my humble opinion —will serve the purpose I have had in view in compiling it ; namely to render to the student of Sanskrit nearly the same service that Webster's or Ogilvie's Dictionary does to the tudent of English.
language linguistics
Pages
1060
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147671
Segment Pages Author Actions
Gopal Narayen & Co. Booksellers & Publishers Bombay
i-iv V.S. Apte view
Preface
1-3 V.S. Apte view
Directions to be Studied Before Using this Dictionary
1-2 V.S. Apte view
Explanation of Terminations Used in the Derivation of Words
1-2 V.S. Apte view
A List of Abbreviations Used in the Dictionary
1-2 V.S. Apte view
The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary
1-575 V.S. Apte view
Article
576-1034 V.S. Apte view
Appendix I. Sanskrit Prosody
1035-1042 V.S. Apte view
Appendix II. Giving the dates &c of important Sanskrit writers
1043-1044 V.S. Apte view
Appendix III. On important Geographical names in ancient India
1045-1047 V.S. Apte view

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