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About CDSL

The Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries (CDSL) is a collection of major historical Sanskrit dictionaries digitized and served by the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne) at sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de. The current site version is 2.10.0.

Mission​

  • Make the standard print Sanskrit dictionaries freely usable online and offline.
  • Keep the digital text faithful to the print, with every correction auditable.
  • Provide the data as open, reusable structured XML.

Markup and digitization​

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

The markup of the Monier-Williams dictionary is described in detail in the project's "Marking Monier" notes (linked from the MW row on the front page). See Acknowledgments for funding and full credits.

Governance & maintenance​

Development happens in the open on GitHub (github.com/sanskrit-lexicon). Correction and generation workflows are documented under Contributing and Developers.