[INDOLOGY] M-W Sanskrit-English Dictionary Co-Authors

[Lubomir Ondracka]

Well, the story of the M-W Sanskrit-English Dictionary is much more complex. It is described in details by Ladislav Zgusta in his paper "Copying in Lexicography: Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary and Other Cases (Dvaikośyam)", Lexicographica 4 (1988): 145-173.

LO


On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:07:51 +0530
Krishnaprasad G <krishnaprasadah.g at gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed, he just translated ( based on) Kleines Petersburger Woerterbuch
> (Boehtlingk) *Sanskrit*-
> 
> *German Dictionary  (one can easily verify this)*
> 
> 
> 
> *also he mentiones Radhakanta Dev who is an editor of Shabdakalpadruma*
> 
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:
> 
> > Sir Monier Monier-Williams, M.A., K.C.I.E., pays due tribute to his
> > Western contributors. But I do not find in his Dictionary any mention of
> > his  Indian contributors' input - no list of Pandits who worked for him -
> > without them, without their immense knowledge, his Opus Magnum would have
> > never appeared in print.
> >
> > I can only wish that someone with access to M-W's working archive would
> > find documents re M-W's Indian employees and publish their names, more:
> > using Indian archive materials - their full biograms.
> >
> > They deserve to be finally brought out of that area of shadow surrounding
> > colonial Indology.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Artur Karp
> >
> > University of Warsaw (emeritus)
> >
> > Poland
> >
> >
> >
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