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.
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@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@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), while Tārānātha lived 1812-1885 (Śrī Brian Hatcher uvāca). 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 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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