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

Lubomir Ondracka ondracka at ff.cuni.cz
Fri Apr 29 16:40:07 UTC 2016


Sure, here it is:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxne4hxeyj7RSXR3X2wxamNWZlk

Lubomir


On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:26:56 -0400
James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Lubomir
> 
> MIght you be able to share with us a pdf of this paper by Ladislav Zgusta?
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Lubomir Ondracka <ondracka at ff.cuni.cz>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> -- 
> James Hartzell, PhD(2x)
> Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
> The University of Trento, Italy
> and
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