Abbreviations & Citations
Dictionary entries are dense with abbreviations — for cited texts, authors, and grammatical categories. This page explains how to read them and how to cite CDSL.
Reading entry abbreviations
Abbreviations in entry bodies are marked up so they can be expanded and (for literary sources) linked to scans:
| Tag | Role | Example content |
|---|---|---|
<ls> | Literary source citation | a text + locus, e.g. a Veda or epic reference |
<ab> | General abbreviation | cf., q.v., grammatical shorthand |
<lex> | Lexical/grammatical category | gender, part of speech |
Each dictionary has its own abbreviation key, taken from its print front matter. Those
legends are transcribed on the dictionary's csl-doc
page (source/dictionaries/{code}.rst and its prefaces/) — the csl-doc column in the
catalog links each one.
Abbreviations compared lines up every dictionary's abbreviation legend against the others — how each abbreviates the same cited works and grammatical terms — and lists each dictionary's full key where it has been transcribed.
Pilot census of OCR pref keys vs body .txt (PWG / AP90):
scripts/out/
(H1530).
Citing the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries
The project's official citation form (from the front page):
In-text: (Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries)
Bibliographic reference: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, version 2.11.0, Cologne University, accessed on [date], https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de
When quoting a specific dictionary, also name the original print work (author, title, year — see the catalog).
Acknowledging data in a website or application
If you reuse the data in a site or app, the project asks for:
This website / application uses data from Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, Cologne University, accessed on [date].
Licensing
The per-dictionary GitHub repositories carry a CC BY-SA 4.0 LICENSE — reuse must
preserve attribution and share-alike. (Confirm terms for any individual dictionary
against its own repo if in doubt.)