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AMAR

Amarakośa (Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana)

Amarasiṃha · c. 4th–6th c. CE

The Amarakośa, Amarasiṃha's celebrated versified thesaurus of Sanskrit synonyms — the most influential of the indigenous koshas. (Conversion to CDSL format in progress.)

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Abbreviation
AMAR
Direction
Sanskrit → Sanskrit
First published
c. 4th–6th c. CE
Digitised by
CDSL

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This is the digital home of the Amarakośa (Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana) (AMAR) within the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL), a volunteer project that digitises, corrects, and openly publishes the foundational Sanskrit dictionaries as citable, reproducible data. Corrections are tracked as change files in this repository; the searchable text is served on the Cologne site.

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