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

[Artur Karp]

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From: Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>
Date: 2016-04-29 11:18 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] M-W Sanskrit-English Dictionary Co-Authors
To: Klaus Karttunen <klaus.karttunen at helsinki.fi>


Thanks for that clarification.

But, dear Klaus, I still tend to have doubts. Has M-W's correspondence been
checked? Have M-W Indian travels itineraries been checked? The lists of
people he visited collated?

M-W reminisces (p. VII): "[...] *on each occasion I met to my surprise with
learned and thoughtful natives [...] able and willing [...] to explain
difficult points in their languages, literatures, religions , and
philosophies.*"

And - even if not M-W himself, his other Western cooperators/contributors
must have had Indian assistants, at some or other time of their
professional careers as Indologists.

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I can see the topic has undergone a split.

Regards,

Artur K.





2016-04-29 10:46 GMT+02:00 Klaus Karttunen <klaus.karttunen at helsinki.fi>:

> It was noted by several contemporary critics. He even copies some of the
> misprints appearing in the Peterburg dictionary. But this was the first
> edition of Monier Williams (1872). The second edition (1899) was completely
> revised and in this he was helped by several assistants and colleagues –
> all mentioned at the end of his introduction. He visited India three times,
> but never lived there, and there were no pandits in Oxford.
>
> Best,
> Klaus
>
> Klaus Karttunen
> South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies
> Asian and African Studies, Department of World Cultures
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> Klaus.Karttunen at helsinki.fi
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>
>
>
>
>
> On 29 Apr 2016, at 11:37, 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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