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This was Boehtlingk's first publication which appeared in 1839-40 in two volumes. The first one contains Panini's sutras accompanied by a German translation and notes and the second one contains the Dhatupatha and Ganapatha along with other useful indices. Boehtlingk's was the first standard text and continued to be used until new editions with detailed exegetical explanations came into being. This edition of Panini was responsible for a revolution in linguistic ...
The so-called “Smaller Petrograd Dicrtionary†– the German title is Sanskrit-Worterbuch in Kuerzerer Fassung – was started by O.V. Bohtlingk only a few years after the completion, in 1875, of the 7-volume “Larger P.D.†(Which he had worked on in cooperation with R.V. Roth). As stated by Bohtlingk himself in the Preface of 1879, the ‘shorter version’ was not meant to replace the earlier one, but “to improve where something ought to be improved ...