A Dictionary: Bengali-Sanskrit-English (In 2 Volumes)

The preparation of this trilingual dictionary was undertaken under the auspices of the East. India’s company in the first halt of the nineteenth century by Sir Graves C. Haughton. Two different styles of writing prevail in all the languages of India. The first which is popular or may be termed as colloquial is like the French and other dialects derived from the Latin, limited in its extent. The other on the contrary, borrows freely, at will of the writer from the Sanskrit and this is to such a decree, that for the infections of the verbs and nouns, it might be considered as the latter nearly unaltered. ‘I his Dictionary consists of nearly all the distinctive terminations, explains more than forty thousand terms of Mathematics, Philosophy, Botany and other Sciences, of Numberless Words connected with Science and Religion, of all the roots of Sanskrit languages in alphabetical order, of thirty thousand References to the most popular senses of the words of the language in question. This Dictionary is must tor students and scholars of Phonology and Philology.