[INDOLOGY] Deccan College sanskrit ditionary
Roland Steiner
steiner at staff.uni-marburg.de
Sun Aug 12 13:27:35 UTC 2018
Dear Prof. Deshpande,
> [...] apavyaya is a relatively newer formation. It is more common
> in modern languages, and probably entered into Sanskrit dictionaries
> through the usage of some Pandits who were the source for western
> scholars.
I absolutely agree. Most probably Wilson's entry (MW's presumable
source here) goes back to the information given by contemporary
Pandits which fits perfectly well in the fact that the lemma apavyaya
is lacking in both of the Petersburg dictionaries.
Roland
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