[INDOLOGY] Śabdakalpadrumaḥ and Vācaspatyam

[Asko Parpola]

The Life of Raja Radhakanta Deva Bahadur, with some notices of his ancestors and testimonials of his character and learning. By the editors of the Raja's Sabdakalpadruma. Calcutta: Englishman Press, 1859. liv pp. + several appendices with testimonials in Urdu/Persian. 
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/2780/1/A%20Rapid%20Sketch%20of%20the%20Life%20of%20Raja%20Radhakanta%20Dev%20Bahadur.pdf

Radhakanta Deb is also included in:
Müller, F. Max, 1899. My Indian friends. (Auld Lang Syne, Second series.) London: Longmans, Green, and Co. xi, 271 pp.

With best regards and wishes, Asko

> On 15. Feb 2024, at 22.07, Charles Li via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 1886 is the posthumous Devanagari print: https://archive.org/details/ShabdaKalpadrumaComplete (this is the 1967 reprint of the 1886 edition)
> 
> It's worth comparing with the Bengali script version, from Śaka 1743 (not quite 1819): https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10219712
> 
> From looking at a couple of passages, the Devanagari print has a number of typos as well as a number of variant readings that are possibly deliberate emendations.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Charles
> 
> On 2024-02-15 20:38, Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY wrote:
>> Dear David,
>> 
>> For Śabdakalpadrumaḥ, Banglapedia reports 1819 for the first volume and 1858 for the last (https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Shabdakalpadruma#:~:text=Shabdakalpadruma%20Sanskrit%20dictionary%20compiled%20by,annexure%2C%20was%20published%20in%201858}.
>> 
>> For Vācaspatyam, WorldCat reports the original publication dates as 1873-1884 (https://search.worldcat.org/title/vachaspatyam-a-comprehensive-sanskrit-dictionary/oclc/830765108?referer=di&ht=edition).
>> 
>> Elliot
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 15, 2024, at 2:10 PM, Buchta, David via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> <mailto:indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Colleagues,
>>> 
>>> Can anyone point me to the original publication dates of Rādhākāntadeva Bāhādura's Śabdakalpadrumaḥ and Tārānātha Tarkavācaspati's Vācaspatyam. From what I can find Rādhākānta lived 1784-1867 (Śrī Wikipedia uvāca <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radhakanta_Deb>), while Tārānātha lived 1812-1885 (Śrī Brian Hatcher uvāca <https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876590>). The wonderful Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries website lists the dates of publication as 1886 for the Śabdakalpadruma and 1873 for the Vācaspatyam. But this seems to flip the sequence. And I found an article <https://www.jstor.org/stable/25207458> R. Lenz from 1835 glorifying the first three volumes of the Śabdakalpadruma.
>>> 
>>> Any help is appreciated, as is any broader scholarship on these two momentous scholars.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave
>>> --
>>> David Buchta, PhD
>>> Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
>>> Department of Classics
>>> Brown University
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