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 ...
