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Welcome to the Sanskrit lexicons prepared since 1994 by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University.
The 42 dictionaries are organized primarily by the secondary language (English, German, etc.), and then by date of publication (1832 till 1993).
Each dictionary has several types of display (B L A M), as well as PDF scan and XML (in SLP1) files for download (D).
All dictionaries are also available for offline usage in android phones via this application. It presumes that some form of stardict viewer is installed on your phone. You may try to install stardict viewer by searching for EBdic, colordict, goldendict or stardict.
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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
How to cite in academic publications?
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(Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries)
Bibliographic reference
Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, version 2.7.286, Cologne University, accessed on February 19, 2025, https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de
How to acknowledge usage of data in a website / application?
This website / application uses data from Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, Cologne University, accessed on February 19, 2025.