Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon

The open, canonical corpus of Sanskrit dictionaries — Monier-Williams, the Petersburg Wörterbücher, the classical kośas and more — digitised, corrected, and published as citable, reproducible open data.

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Sanskrit–English dictionaries

MWMonier-Williams Sanskrit–English DictionarySir Monier Monier-Williams · Oxford, 1899 MW72Monier-Williams Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1872)Sir Monier Monier-Williams · Oxford, 1872 APThe Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary (Revised & Enlarged)Vaman Shivram Apte · Poona, 1957 AP90The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1890)Vaman Shivram Apte · Poona, 1890 WILA Dictionary in Sanscrit and EnglishHorace Hayman Wilson · Calcutta, 1832 BENA Sanskrit–English DictionaryTheodor Benfey · London, 1866 MDA Practical Sanskrit DictionaryArthur Anthony Macdonell · Oxford, 1893 CAEA Sanskrit–English DictionaryCarl Cappeller · Strassburg, 1891 SHSThe Śabda-Sāgara: A Comprehensive Sanskrit–English LexiconCalcutta, 1900 LRVThe Standard Sanskrit–English DictionaryL. R. Vaidya · Bombay, 1889 BHSBuddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryFranklin Edgerton · New Haven, 1953

Sanskrit–German dictionaries

PWSanskrit-Wörterbuch (Großes Petersburger Wörterbuch)Otto Böhtlingk & Rudolph Roth · St. Petersburg, 1855–1875 pwSanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungOtto Böhtlingk · St. Petersburg, 1879–1889 SCHNachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungRichard Schmidt · Leipzig, 1928 CCSSanskrit-WörterbuchCarl Cappeller · Strassburg, 1887 GRAWörterbuch zum Rig-VedaHermann Grassmann · Leipzig, 1873

Indigenous Sanskrit thesauri (kośa)

SKDŚabdakalpadrumaRājā Rādhākānta Deva · Calcutta, 1822–1858 AMARAmarakośa (Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana)Amarasiṃha · c. 4th–6th c. CE VCPVācaspatyamTārānātha Tarkavācaspati · Calcutta, 1873–1884

English–Sanskrit dictionaries

AEThe Student's English–Sanskrit DictionaryVaman Shivram Apte · Poona, 1884 BORA Practical English–Sanskrit DictionaryAnundoram Borooah · Calcutta, 1877–1887

Other languages

BURDictionnaire classique sanscrit-françaisÉmile Burnouf & Leupol · Paris, 1866 KOWSanskrit–Russian DictionaryKaetan Kossowicz · St. Petersburg, 1854–1856 BOPGlossarium SanscritumFranz Bopp · Berlin, 1847

Reference works, glossaries & indexes

VEIThe Vedic Index of Names and SubjectsA. A. Macdonell & A. B. Keith · London, 1912 IEGIndian Epigraphical GlossaryDineschandra Sircar · Delhi, 1966 INMIndex to the Names in the MahābhārataSören Sörensen · London, 1904–1925 MCIMahābhārata Cultural Index1993 ACCAufrecht's Catalogus CatalogorumTheodor Aufrecht · Leipzig, 1891–1903 KRMKṛdantarūpamālā1965 FRIFriš Sanskrit Reader VocabularyOldřich Friš · 1956

Analysis & tools

Apps and research surfaces built on the corpus.

Dictionary appSearch 49 dictionaries in your browser — offline-capable, no install. Guides & docsUser, contributor, and developer documentation for the CDSL. AtlasComparative microstructural analysis across the Cologne dictionaries. ObservatoryRepository, contributor, and correction-quality metrics for the ecosystem.