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A HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE EDITED BY JAN GONDA
VOLUME V Fasc. 4
1979 OTTO HARRASSOWITZ • WIESBADEN
CLAUS VOGEL
INDIAN LEXICOGRAPHY
1979 OTTO HARRASSOWITZ • WIESBADEN
A HISTORY OF INDIAN LITERATURE Contents of Vol. V
Vol. V: Scientific and Technical Literature, Part II Fasc. 1: Fasc. 2: Fasc. 3: Fasc. 4:
J . D.M. Derret H . Scharfe E. Gerow C. Vogel M . Hahn
DharmaSastra and Juridical Literature Grammatical Literature Indian Poetics Indian Lexicography Metrik
CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme der Deutschen Bibliothek A history of Indian literature / ed. by Jan Gonda. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. NB: Gonda, Jan [Hrsg.] Vol. 5. Scientific and technical literature: pt. 2. Fasc. 4. -*• Vogel, Claus: Indian lexicography Vogel, Claus: Indian lexicography / Claus Vogel. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1979. (A history of Indian literature ; Vol. 5, Fasc. 4) ISBN 3-447-02010-5
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CONTENTS
1. Introduction 303 2. Characterization of Indian lexica 305 3. Vacaspati's Sabdarnava, Vyadi's Utpalinl, Vikramaditya's Samsaravarta 306 4. Weber Fragment No. 6 309 5. Amarasimha's Namalinganusasana 309 6. Commentaries on Amarasimha's Namalinganusasana 313 7. Sasvata's Anekarthasamuccaya 318 8. Mahaksapanaka's Anekarthadhvanimafijari 319 9. Halayudha's Abhidhanaratnamala 321 10. Dhanapala's Paiyalacchl 322 11. Yadavaprakasa's Vaijayanti 323 12. Bhoja's Namamalika 325 13. Ajayapala's Nanarthasamgraha 325 14. Dharanidasa's Anekarthasara 326 15. Dhanamjaya's Namamala 327 16. Dhanamjaya's Paryayasabdaratna .. 329 17. Mahesvara's Visvaprakasa 329 18. Purusottamadeva's Trikanda^esa, Haravall, Ekaksarakosa, Dvirupakosa, and Varnadesana 331 19. Mankha's Anekarthakosa 334 20. Hemacandra 335 21. Hemacandra's Abhidhanacintamani 336 22. Hemacandra's Anekarthasamgraha 340 23. Hemacandra's Deslnanaamala 343 24. Hemacandra's Nighantusesa 345 25. Kesavasvamin's Nanartharnavasamksepa 346 26. Medinikara's Nanarthasabdakosa 347 27. Srldharasena's Visvalocana or Muktavali 348 28. Padmanabhadatta's Bhiiriprayoga 350 29. Mahlpa's Sabdaratnakara and Anekarthatilaka 351 30. Irugapa's Nanartharatnamala 352 31. Raghava's Nanarthamafijari 353 32. Vamanabhatta Bana's Sabdaratnakara and Sabdacandrika .. • • 354 33. Makarandadasa's Paramanandiyanamamala 355 34. Harsakirti's Saradiyakhyanamamala, Anekarthanamamala, and !§abdanekartha 358 35. Rupacandra's Rupamanjarinamamala and Pundarika Vitthala's Slghrabodhininamamala 359
36. Appayya Diksita's Namasamgrahamala 37. Sahajaklrti's Siddhasabdarnava 38. VisVanatha's Kosakalpataru 39. Venidatta's Paiicatattvaprakaia and Mlramlrasuta's Asalatiprakasa 40. KeSava's Kalpadrukosa 41. MathureSa Vidyalamkara's Sabdaratnavall 42. $ahajl's 6abdaratnasamanvaya and Sabdarthasamgraha 43. Demetrios Galanos 44. Ksemendra's Lokaprakasa 45. Special dictionaries 46. Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries Bibliography Abbreviations Index
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Claus Vogel INDIAN LEXICOGRAPHY
1. Introduction Lexicographic work started in India at a very early date with the compilation of word-lists (nighantu) giving rare, unexplained, vague, or otherwise difficult terms culled from sacred writings. These glossaries, of which that handed down and commented upon in Yaska's Nirukta is the best-known and probably oldest specimen, did not, however, constitute the prototype of the dictionaries (kosa) of later times.1 There are instead a number of marked dissimilarities between them. For one thing, the Vedic word-lists deal with all parts of speech, when 1
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