ABCH — Abhidhānacintāmaṇi (~12th c.)

The classical Sanskrit synonymic kosha by Hemacandra (~12th century CE). A verse-format synonymic dictionary of the Jain scholarly tradition. The most-cited kosha in PWG — cited 17,337 times as H. (Hemacandra), making it the single most-referenced source in the entire Großes PW. One of the four CDSL koshas included in this atlas for lineage analysis.

Source: csl-orig v02/abch/abch.txt · ABCH GitHub

Trust Block

Evidence: CDSL v02 abch.txt, the ABCH dictionary repo, and atlas lineage notes.
Limitations: kosha context page; this is not a full bilingual microstructure chapter and not a passage corpus.
Validation: checked by npm run build; page links are covered by Observable link validation.
Owner repo: csl-atlas.
Next use: use this dictionary profile as context, then open source-linked records or compare the lemma in Reader Lookup.

At a glance


Genre	Classical Sanskrit synonymic kosha (Jain)
Format	Verse (one verse = one synonym group)
Language	Sanskrit
Date	~12th century CE
CDSL role	Most-cited kosha in PWG; lineage source for WIL → MW
Common-block framework	Not applicable (verse-synonym genre)
PWG citations of ABCH	17,337 (as `H.`)

Why ABCH is in the atlas

ABCH is not a structured bilingual dictionary and cannot be analysed with the block apparatus. It appears for lineage context:

Most-cited source in PWG. Of all sources in PWG's <ls> apparatus, H. (Hemacandra = ABCH) appears 17,337 times — more than Amarakośa (14,473), Medinīkośa (13,055), or any Vedic text. ABCH is the highest-impact single source in the European philological tradition as represented in CDSL.
What MW's L. hides. MW inherits kosha senses via WIL, then suppresses their individual attributions behind the anonymous <ls>L.</ls> hedge. ABCH is the most concrete case of what L. collapses: 17,337 named Hemacandra attributions reduced to a single anonymous marker.
Jain lexicographic tradition. Hemacandra's kosha reflects the Jain scholastic tradition, distinct from the Brahmanical tradition of Amarakośa — the same word in both sources may carry different register.

Citation evidence

From DICT_PROFILE.md — Citation evidence:

Source cited as `<ls>`	Identity	PWG citations	MW citations
`H.`	Hemacandra (= ABCH)	17,337	0 (→ `L.`)
`H. an.`	Hemacandra's Anekārthasaṃgraha	9,771	0 (→ `L.`)

The four CDSL koshas

CDSL repo	Title	Author	Date
ARMH	Abhidhānaratnamālā	Halāyudha	~10th c.
ABCH	Abhidhānacintāmaṇi	Hemacandra	~12th c.
ACPH	Abhidhānacintāmaṇi-pariśiṣṭa	Hemacandra	~12th c.
ACSJ	Abhidhānacintāmaṇi-śiloñcha	Hemacandra (attr.)	~12th c.