Amarako?ah: a metrical dictionary of the Sanskrit language with Tibetan version

Vidyabhusana, Satis Chandra, editor

Published by printed at the Baptist Mission Press and published by the Asiatic Society, 1, Park Street, Calcutta, 1911

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First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [8], 200; [6], 201-384; lexicon in Sanskrit and Tibetan; mostly unopened; original printed wrappers bound in; front wrapper in volume I with old tape repair; back wrapper in volume I torn with minor loss; text toned throughout and with occasional tears entering from the margins; all else near fine in recent green cloth bindings, gilt lettering on spines. Issued as New Series, no. 1295 and 1333 in the publisher's Bibliotheca Indica series The Amarako?a by Amarasi?ha, probably a Buddhist author, is the most renowned Sanskrit lexicographical work, seemingly composed around the middle of the first millennium CE. Amarako?a (??????) or N?maliñg?nu??sana is "a synonymous dictionary authored by Amarasimha of the 6th C.A.D. (or earlier). The dictionary is divided into three sections called k????s and hence popularly known as Trik???a. A major part of the lexicon deals with the synonyms and a small section, viz., n?n?rthavarga is devoted to homonyms; where the arrangement is according to the final consonants. The indeclinables are treated in one section while the last section is devoted to general rules for determining the genders . Though there have been many lexicons prior to it, the Amarako?a has been most frequently referred to as an authority, in support of descriptions of words used by them while commenting on any Sanskrit text. The Catalogus Cataloqorum of Aufrecht mentions about forty commentaries on Amarako?a. The author has consulted his predecessors in compiling the lexicon as acknowledged by him in the introductory stanzas" (wisdomlib[dot]org).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amarako?ah: a metrical dictionary of the Sanskrit language with Tibetan version
• Publisher: printed at the Baptist Mission Press and published by the Asiatic Society, 1, Park Street, Calcutta
• Publication Date: 1911
• Edition: 1st Edition
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