The Sanskrit-Chinese Lexicon is a transcription, reconstruction and translation of the Chinese work Fn Fan Yu, compiled from sutrasm vunaya, sastras and lost travel accounts. It is the earliest known thematic lexicon of Sanskrit compiled by the eminent Chinese monk Pao-ch'ang in AD 517. It includes words from lost Chinese translations of Buddhist sutras. The names of central Asian and Indian cities, monasteries and caityas quoted from the records of the ...
