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Read the complete original articles from the digitized first edition of 1890. Meanings, examples, references and compounds appear in their original English wording and link to scans of the printed pages.
You can find the article headwords in a consistent Sanskrit spelling. Base forms and word types follow clear evidence from the source. Abbreviated compounds can be read within their original articles.
Edition: Vaman Shivram Apte: The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Poona: Shiralkar & Co., 1890.
Digitization and scans: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries. The original pages come from AYI’s existing copy of the same edition.
Transcription: © 2014 The Sanskrit Library and Thomas Malten. Edited by Jim Funderburk, Thomas Malten and Peter M. Scharf. The digital transcription and its adapted data are available under Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – ShareAlike 3.0. Spellings and attested base forms were mapped for the search. Historical English wording is retained in both page languages.
The complete book scan also includes the introduction and the appendix on prosody, the study of poetic metre.
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