[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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