Last updated: Oct 31, 2026

Dictionary Catalog

The tables below are auto-generated from the live front page by scripts/build-catalog.mjs, which also cross-references the sanskrit-lexicon org repo list and the per-dictionary pages in csl-doc (the project's Sphinx "front matter / prefaces / user notes" reference). Re-run the script to refresh; nothing in the tables is hand-maintained, so it cannot drift. See Reconciliation with csl-doc for how the sources relate. Prefer a picture? The same corpus is plotted as an interactive dictionary landscape (era × novelty × size), with a companion view of what each dictionary quotes.

Codes are the website display codes. Where the GitHub repo is named differently it shows in the Repo column (e.g. MW → MWS, AE → ApteES, PW → PWK); a dash means no dedicated per-dictionary repo (the dictionary is still served from the site, with its text in csl-orig).

Reading the table

Click a code to open that dictionary's csl-orig source directory (the canonical plain-text source). 44 of the 45 have one — every dictionary except the PD sample.
Hover a dictionary name to see its full author/editor and descriptive title (and the Pp. column gives the print page count) — all from the front-page metadata.

Count — resolved

The front page headline and the table row count differ by design. The table has 45 rows: 44 fully digitized dictionaries — each with its own …Scan code and B/L/A/M display, and the count the headline figures use — plus the PD sample, shown as a sample only (marked *, "funded by the DFG-NEH Project 2010-2013"): it links to a pd-sample.php page and has no …Scan code and no B/L/A/M display. csl-doc documents 38 (no PD page, since there is no full dictionary to document). Every catalogued dictionary also has a featured deep page, plus the uncatalogued PWKVN. When any other page quotes a count of dictionaries, these generated numbers are the canonical ones — they refresh with npm run build:catalog.

Auto-generated from the live front page on 2026-10-31 by scripts/build-catalog.mjs. 44 fully digitized dictionaries (45 rows including the PD sample); 38 have a csl-doc page.

Open: B=Basic · L=List · A=Advanced · M=Mobile. Data: D=Downloads · S¹=PDF scan · S²=JPG scan. Greyed letters are not offered for that dictionary. A 📖 guide link marks dictionaries with a dedicated guide page in this site. Links to the live CDSL site, scans, and GitHub open in a new browser tab.

Sanskrit-English (14)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`WIL`	Wilson Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1832	982	B L A M	DS¹S²	WIL	wil
`YAT`	Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1846	928	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	yat
`GST`	Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1856	334	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	gst
`BEN`	Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1866	1145	B L A M	DS¹S²	BEN	ben
`MW72`	Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1872	1186	B L A M	DS¹S²	MW72	mw72
`LAN`	Lanman's Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary 📖 guide	1884	403	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	lan
`LRV`	Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1889	889	B L A M	DS¹S²	LRV	lrv
`AP90`	Apte Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1890	1196	B L A M	DS¹S²	AP90	ap90
`CAE`	Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1891	672	B L A M	DS¹S²	CAE	cae
`MD`	Macdonell Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1893	384	B L A M	DS¹S²	MD	md
`MW`	Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1899	1333	B L A M	D S¹ S²	MWS	mw
`SHS`	Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary 📖 guide	1900	839	B L A M	DS¹S²	SHS	shs
`AP`	Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary, revised edition 📖 guide	1957	1768	B L A M	DS¹S²	AP	ap
`PD`	An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles (sample only) 📖 guide	1976	4328	sample	—	—	—

English-Sanskrit (3)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`MWE`	Monier-Williams English-Sanskrit Dictionary 📖 guide	1851	860	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	mwe
`BOR`	Borooah English-Sanskrit Dictionary 📖 guide	1877	772	B L A M	DS¹S²	BOR	bor
`AE`	Apte Student's English-Sanskrit Dictionary 📖 guide	1920	501	B L A M	D S¹ S²	ApteES	ae

Sanskrit-French (2)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`BUR`	Burnouf Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français 📖 guide	1866	781	B L A M	DS¹S²	BUR	bur
`STC`	Stchoupak Dictionnaire Sanscrit-Français 📖 guide	1932	904	BL A M	DS¹S²	STC	stc

Sanskrit-German (5)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`PWG`	Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch 📖 guide	1855		B L A M	DS¹S²	PWG	pwg
`GRA`	Grassmann Wörterbuch zum Rig Veda 📖 guide	1873	1775	B L A M	DS¹S²	GRA	gra
`PW`	Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung 📖 guide	1879	2141	B L A M	DS¹S²	PWK	pw
`CCS`	Cappeller Sanskrit Wörterbuch 📖 guide	1887	541	B L A M	DS¹S²	CCS	ccs
`SCH`	Schmidt Nachträge zum Sanskrit-Wörterbuch 📖 guide	1928	398	B L A M	DS¹S²	SCH	sch

Sanskrit-Latin (1)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`BOP`	Bopp Glossarium Sanscritum 📖 guide	1847	420	B L A M	DS¹S²	BOP	bop

Sanskrit-Sanskrit (8)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`ARMH`	Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha 📖 guide	1861		B L A M	DS¹S²	—	—
`VCP`	Vacaspatyam 📖 guide	1873	5407	B L A M	DS¹S²	VCP	vcp
`SKD`	Sabda-kalpadruma 📖 guide	1886	3164	B L A M	DS¹S²	SKD	skd
`ABCH`	Abhidhānacintāmaṇi of Hemacandrācārya 📖 guide	1896	58	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	abch
`ACPH`	Abhidhānacintāmaṇipariśiṣṭa of Hemacandrācārya 📖 guide	1896	8	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	—
`ACSJ`	Abhidhānacintāmaṇiśiloñcha of Jinadeva 📖 guide	1896	5	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	—
`NYBJ`	Nyāyakośa or Dictionary of Technical Terms of Indian Philosophy	1928	1154	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	—
`NMMB`	Nāmamālikā of Bhoja 📖 guide	1955	40	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	—

Specialized (12)

Code	Dictionary	Year	Pp.	Open	Data	Repo	csl-doc
`INM`	Index to the Names in the Mahabharata 📖 guide	1904	852	B L A M	DS¹S²	INM	inm
`VEI`	The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects 📖 guide	1912	560	B L A M	DS¹S²	VEI	vei
`PUI`	The Purana Index 📖 guide	1951	2232	B L A M	DS¹S²	PUI	pui
`BHS`	Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary 📖 guide	1953	634	B L A M	DS¹S²	BHS	bhs
`FRI`	Friš Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary 📖 guide	1956	349	B L A M	DS¹S²	FRI	—
`ACC`	Aufrecht's Catalogus Catalogorum 📖 guide	1962	1216	B L A M	DS¹S²	ACC	acc
`KRM`	Kṛdantarūpamālā 📖 guide	1965	1489	B L A M	DS¹S²	KRM	krm
`IEG`	Indian Epigraphical Glossary 📖 guide	1966	580	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	ieg
`SNP`	Meulenbeld's Sanskrit Names of Plants 📖 guide	1974	94	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	snp
`PE`	Puranic Encyclopedia 📖 guide	1975	922	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	pe
`PGN`	Personal and Geographical Names in the Gupta Inscriptions 📖 guide	1978	378	B L A M	DS¹S²	—	pgn
`MCI`	Mahabharata Cultural Index 📖 guide	1993	981	B L A M	DS¹S²	MCI	mci

Trust block

Evidence: the tables are generated by scripts/build-catalog.mjs from the live CDSL front page, cross-referenced with the sanskrit-lexicon org repo list and csl-doc; nothing in them is hand-maintained.
Limitations: reflects the front page at last generation — upstream changes (new dictionaries, renamed repos) appear only after a re-run; PD is a sample row, not a full dictionary; the repo-name mapping (e.g. MW → MWS) is curated in the script, so a novel upstream rename can lag.
Validation: regenerate with npm run build:catalog and confirm the diff is empty against the committed src/data/dictionaries.json when upstream is unchanged.
Owner repo: csl-guides.
Next use: click a code to open that dictionary's csl-orig source; for a visual comparison, see the dictionary landscape.

In preparation (not yet on the front page)

These dictionaries have repositories in the org but are not yet listed on the live front page (so they do not appear in the generated tables above). They include a Sanskrit–Russian language group the current front page does not represent.

Repo	Title	Author	Year	Language	Status
AMAR	Amarakośa (Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana)	Amarasiṃha	—	SA → SA	Source `amar.txt` built, bound for `csl-orig/v02/amar/`
KOW	Sanskrito-russkiy slovar	Kossowich	1854	SA → RU	~13,488 entries; corrections/scans repo
KNA	Sanskrit–Russian Vocabulary	Knauer	1908	SA → RU	3,271 entries; corrections repo

Reconciliation with csl-doc

csl-doc is the project's existing Sphinx documentation site. Each dictionary has a source/dictionaries/{code}.rst page holding its front matter, prefaces, and user notes (the dictionary text itself lives in csl-orig, conventionally at csl-orig/v02/{code}/{code}.txt). The generated catalog's csl-doc column links each dictionary to its page where one exists. csl-doc's index.rst documents 38 dictionaries, all a subset of the 43 on the front page.

On the website but not in csl-doc (5):

Code	Title	Has org repo?
`PD`	Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles	No (sample only)
`FRI`	Friš Sanskrit Reader Vocabulary	Yes — FRI (repo but no csl-doc page)
`ARMH`	Abhidhānaratnamālā of Halāyudha	No
`ACPH`	Abhidhānacintāmaṇipariśiṣṭa	No
`ACSJ`	Abhidhānacintāmaṇiśiloñcha	No

Of the four Abhidhāna texts, only ABCH has a csl-doc page (abch.rst); ARMH/ACPH/ACSJ have neither a repo nor a csl-doc page.

Resolved by reconciliation

Wilson vs Yates — separate dictionaries. csl-doc has distinct wil.rst and yat.rst pages. WIL has its own repo; YAT has none (its corrections live in the shared Wil-YAT repo).
PW display code — confirmed by pw.rst ("Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung"); the repo is PWK.
Source location — now linked per row. Every dictionary except the PD sample (42 of 43) has its plain-text source under csl-orig/v02/{code}/; the generator verifies this and the table's code links straight to it. This includes the "unmigrated" dictionaries (GST, LAN, IEG, SNP, PE, PGN, MWE) and the Abhidhāna texts — none needs a dedicated per-dictionary repo to have a source.
GST covers only words beginning with a- (noted on its csl-doc page).
AMAR/KNA/KOW — not Abhidhāna texts; separate newer dictionaries (see In preparation). None has a csl-doc page yet.

Still open

csl-doc coverage gaps — FRI has a repo but no csl-doc page; the three uncovered Abhidhāna texts (ARMH, ACPH, ACSJ) may also warrant pages. (PD does not — it is a sample only, see the Count note above.)
Publisher / place / edition statements — author, descriptive title, and page count are now surfaced (hover a name; see the Pp. column), all from the front-page metadata. The remaining bibliographic details — publisher, place of publication, edition — are not on the front page; they live in each dictionary's print front matter, transcribed on the csl-doc prefaces/ pages.