[INDOLOGY] Śabdakalpadrumaḥ and Vācaspatyam

Mon Feb 26 19:38:11 UTC 2024

A delayed thank you to all who responded to my query about the Vācaspatyam
and the Śabdakalpataru. It was a pleasure learning a bit more about these
two scholars whose monumental works I have so long benefitted from.

I will note that the revision of the Śabdakalpadruma by Basu and Basu was
more extensive than I had imagined.

For the entry I was curious about, *kalikā*, the Vācaspatyam includes an
extensive block-quote from Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa's commentary on Rūpa
Gosvāmin's *Stavamālā*. This quotation was not found in the original
Śabdakalpadruma, but was included in the revised edition. Basu and Basu
appear thus to have been directly influenced by the Vācaspatyam. But
elsewhere they quote from this commentary where the Vācaspatyam does not,
showing that they accessed it independently.

--
David Buchta, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of Classics
Brown University

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 9:33 AM Karttunen, Klaus J via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> My unpublished index of Indian Indologists contains following information:
>
> *TARKAVĀCASPATI, Tārānāth (T. T. Bhattācārya)* (1812 — 1885) (Sanskrit
> Lexicography and Philosophy)
> Studies at Sanskrit College in Calcutta, then Vedānta in Benares. Taught
> Sanskrit at his native village, Kalna, Burdwan dt., later Professor of
> Sanskrit Grammar and Philosophy at Sanskrit College in Calcutta. Author of
> a monumental Sanskrit encyclopaedia.
> – *Asubodhavyākaraṇam.* 438 p. 1867 (grammar, in Sanskrit).
> – *Vācaspatyam.* (comprehensive Sanskrit dictionary) 1-6. c. 5500 p.
> Calcutta 1873-84.
> – *Śabdastomamahānidhi.* (shorter Sanskrit dictionary) c. 500 p. 1886,
> 3rd ed. 1967.
> – many text editions, e.g. Bhāravi’s *Kirātārjunīyam* with Ghaṇṭāpatha by
> Mallinātha. Calcutta 1847; Māgha’s *Śiśupālavadha* with Mallinātha’s
> commentary. 504+488 p. Calcutta 1769 (=1847); Mādhava’s
> *Sarvadarśanasaṁgraha.* 1851; *Mahávíra Charita by Bhavabhúti.* 124 p.
> Calcutta 1857; Śaṅkara’s *Daśaślokī,* with editor’s Sāra. 1865;
> *Sāṁkhyakārikā* with Vācaspatimiśra’s Kaumudī. 1871; Viśvanātha’s
> *Bhāṣāpariccheda.* 1871.
> (Buckland, *Dictionary*)
>
> *DEVA (DEB), *Rāja* Rādhakānta*, Bahadur (1784 — 19.4.1867) (Sanskrit)
> Born in a rich and high Bengali family, who were supporting the British.
> Studied Arabian, Persian, English, NIA languages and Sanskrit. A friend of
> H. T. Colebrooke and H. H. Wilson. Leading figures of the liberal orthodox
> renaissance of Calcutta in early 19th century. One of the founders of the
> Hindu College and a promoter of women’s education in Bengali. With several
> assistants (S. Bhaṭṭācārya, H. Tarkapañcānana, T. Tarkabhūṣaṇa, T.
> Tarkasiddhānta, R. Śiromaṇi & S. Nyāyavāgīśa) he compiled his well known
> and enormous Sanskrit encyclopædia, which testifies of his immense
> traditional learning. The work began in 1819, mostly from manuscripts, and
> was finished in 1857. The work attracted much attention and appreciation,
> and its author became a honorary (or something like) member of Soc.
> Asiatique, American Oriental Soc., Asiatic Soc. of Bengal and of the
> Academies of Berlin, Wien and St.Petersburg.
> – a booklet on women's education publ. in the beginning of the 19th
> century.
> – *Nīti kathā* 1. (moral tales chiefly from English and Arabian sources)
> 1818 (vol. II. compiled by Pearson, III. by T. Thomason); a Bengali
> spelling book 1820.
> – *Śabdakalpadruma* I–VII. 1821–51 & Suppl. Vol. 1857.
> (Gosche, *Wiss. Jb. zu ZDMG* 1862-67, 65f.; *Śrītārācaraṇa Śarman, *Rādhakāntanṛpateś
> caritraśatakam.* [118 Sanskrit verses on R. D.] 28 p., Calcutta 1868;
> *S. Sen Gupta, "R.D., the Educator: Popular and Female Education", *JASB* 4th
> S. 17, 1975, 60-87; **A rapid sketch of the Life of R. D. Bahadur, with
> some notes of his ancestors, by the editors of Śabdakalpadruma.* 34+16+7
> p. Calcutta 1859; **Proceedings of ASB,* May 1867, 77-80)
>
> Best,
> Klaus
> ------------------------------
> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of Asko
> Parpola via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 16, 2024 12:35 PM
> *To:* Charles Li <cchli at cantab.net>
> *Cc:* indology at list.indology.info <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Śabdakalpadrumaḥ and Vācaspatyam
>
>
>
> 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> <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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