Sanskrit Worterbuch (In 7 Volumes)

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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 and to always remind the reader by leaving out all the quotations and references, that the larger dictionary had to remain the main source”. Indeed, whoever wants to know more about a word, i.e., the background and basis of the meanings given for it, still has to turn to the larger P.D. On the other hand, it is equally evident that Bohtlingk has fully achieved his aim: The “Smaller P.D.” is so considerably an improvement both in terms of substance as also of quantity that it has become the tool of all those who wish to read Sanskrit texts. In fact most of the later Sanskrit dictionaries are heavily indebted to Bohtlingk’s work, directly or indirectly; e.g., Monier-Williams’ is little more than a translated abridgement. It is a long left need of Indian Studies that the shorter version, a signal achievement in lexicography is also made available again to present day scholars, and in a reprint which is both good and reasonably priced.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Otto Bohtlingk

Otto von Boehtlingk, one of the greatest 19th century Indologists, is best known for the compilation of the monumental St. Petersburg Sanskrit dictionary.  He was born on 11.6.1815 in St. Petersburg.  Boehtlingk attended a German school in St. Petersburg and continued his university studies there.  He later went to Bonn and Berlin where he studied with Bopp and Schlegel.  In 1842 Boehtlingk was appointed a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.  In later years he was its honorary member.  In 1868 he went to Jena and later in 1885 he moved to Leipzig where he died on 1.4.1904.

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Title
Sanskrit Worterbuch (In 7 Volumes)
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8120807243
Length
xii+300p., iv+302p., iv+226p., viii+302p., 264p., vi+306p., 309p.
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