This web page provides access to many of the Sanskrit lexicons prepared by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University.
The dictionaries are organized primarily by the secondary language (English, German, etc.), and then by date of publication.
Each dictionary has several types of display, as well as a comprehensive selection of materials for download.
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Sanskrit-English Dictionaries |
| ID | date | Dictionary | Displays and Downloads |
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| WIL | 1832 | Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D S Deprecated |
| YAT * | 1846 | Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D |
| GST * | 1856 | Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D |
| BEN * | 1866 | Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D |
| MW72 * | 1872 | Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D |
| AP90 * | 1890 | Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D |
| CAE | 1891 | Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D S |
| MD | 1893 | Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D S |
| MW | 1899 | Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D S1 S2 Markup Deprecated |
| SHS | 1900 | Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary | B L A M D |
| BHS * | 1953 | Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary | B L A M D |
| AP | 1957 | Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, revised edition | available on special request for research purposes |
| PD * | 1976 | An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles | available on special request for research purposes |
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English-Sanskrit Dictionaries |
| MWE * | 1851 | Monier-Williams English-Sanskrit Dictionary | B L A M D |
| BOR * | 1877 | Borooah English-Sanskrit Dictionary | B L A M D |
| AE | 1884 | Apte Student's English-Sanskrit Dictionary | B L A M D S1 S2 Deprecated |
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Sanskrit-French Dictionaries |
| BUR * | 1866 | Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français | B L A M D |
| STC * | 1932 | Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français | B L A M D S SD |
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Sanskrit-German Dictionaries |
| PWG | 1855 | Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch | B L A M D S Deprecated |
| GRA * | 1873 | Grassman Wörterbuch zum Rig Veda | B L A M D |
| PW | 1879 | Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung | B L A M D S Deprecated |
| CCS * | 1887 | Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch | B L A M D S |
| SCH | 1928 | Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch | B L A M D S |
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Sanskrit-Latin Dictionaries |
| BOP * | 1847 | Bopp Glossarium Sanscritum | B L A M D |
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Sanskrit-Sanskrit Dictionaries |
| SKD * | 1822 | Sabda-kalpadruma | B L A M D |
| VCP * | 1873 | Vacaspatyam | B L A M D |
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Specialized Dictionaries |
| INM * | 1904 | Index to the Names in the Mahabharata | B L A M D |
| VEI * | 1912 | The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects | B L A M D |
| PUI * | 1951 | The Purana Index | B L A M D |
| ACC * | 1962 | Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum | B L A M D |
| KRM * | 1965 | Kṛdantarūpamālā | B L A M D |
| IEG * | 1966 | Indian Epigraphical Glossary | B L A M D |
| SNP * | 1974 | Meulenbeld's Sanskrit Names of Plants | B L A M D |
| PE * | 1975 | Puranic Encyclopedia | B L A M D |
| PGN * | 1978 | Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions | B L A M D S |
| MCI * | 1993 | Mahabharata Cultural Index | B L A M D |
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| Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2012/2013 displays |
| Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2008 |
| Monier-Williams Advanced Search, 2008 |
| Sanskrit and Tamil Dictionaries, 2005 |
| Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary, semi-digitized edition, 2008 |
| Apte English-Sanskrit Dictionary, 2007 |
| Boehtlingk & Roth Sanskrit-German Dictionary, 2011 |
| Boehtlingk + Schmidt Sanskrit-German Dictionary, 2012 |
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Miscellany |
| Kale Higher Sanskrit Grammar, 1894 (Scanned) |
| Westergaard Linguae Sanscritae, 1841 (Scanned) |
| Whitney's Roots, 1885 (Scanned) |
| MW Inflected forms |
| MW Inflected forms, v2 |
Credits
The digitizations of works marked with an asterisk (*) were funded by the DFG-NEH Project 2010-2013.
The markup of the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary is described in detail here.
The markup of the various dictionaries was designed and implemented by:
- Thomas Malten (Cologne University) and assistants in India
- Peter Scharf (The Sanskrit Library)
- Malcolm D. Hyman (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin)
- Jim Funderburk
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