The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary

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Preface THE Dictionary that is now offered to the public has been intended to supply a want, long felt by the student, of a Sanskrit-English Dictionary such as would meet all his ordinary requirements, and be at the same time with in his easy reach. Without dwelling, therefore, on the necessity of bringing out a work like this, I shall proceed to state its scope. As its name indicates, the Dictionary is designed to meet all the ordinary wants of a High-School or College student. With this object in view I have not thought it necessary to include Vedic words or Vedic senses of words, but have confined myself chiefly to what may be called the pat-Vedic literature. But even this covers a very large field, as it includes Epics like the Ramayana, Mahabharata, the several Puranas, the Smriti literature, the several Daranar or systems of philosophy, much as Nyaya Vedanta, Mimamsa &c, Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry in all its brancher, Dramatic literature, Mathematics, Medicine Botany, Astronomy, Music, and such other technical or scientific branches of learning. Very few of the existing Dictionaries have tried to deal with and explain the innumerable technical terms pertaining to all the various branches of learning above specified, except perhaps the great Vachapatya, which, too, however, is defective in some respects. Much less can a Dictionary like this, designed mainly for the University student, be expected to do so. It principally aims at serving as an aid to the student and the general reader, and embraces all words occurring in the general post-Vedic literature, i.e. Prose tales, Kavyas, Dramas, epics &e. It includes most of ordinary and more important terms in Grammar, Nyaya, Rhetoric, Law, Medicine, Astronomy, Mathematics, &c., but gives special prominence to the explanation of all important terms in the first three departments, as they are generally studied at College for Univenity examinations. It omita Vedic words or Vedic senses of words, the names of authors and their works-which are too many to be noticed in a Dictionary-except the most important ones, the name of plants and trees except such as are noteworthy and met with in general literature, obscure or unimportant words or serues of words not generally used in classical literature, and simple derivatives from verbs, adjectives &c. which can be very easily formed by the student for himself. But these cmimions will, it is hoped, not in any way lessens the usefulness of the Dictionary, as it gives in a small compass all that a student of Sanskrit will ordinarily require-perhaps even more in some cases-during his School or College career.

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