Cappeller, Sanskrit-Wörterbuch (`CCS`)

CCS is Carl Cappeller's Sanskrit-Wörterbuch (1887), "nach den Petersburger Wörterbüchern bearbeitet" — a concise one-volume German Sanskrit dictionary distilled from the great Petersburg lexica (PWG / PW). It packs the essentials of Böhtlingk-Roth into ~541 pages of terse German glosses, and is the German twin of Cappeller's better-known English Sanskrit-English Dictionary (CAE, 1891).

At a glance


Code	`CCS` (GitHub repo `CCS`)
Full title	Sanskrit-Wörterbuch, nach den Petersburger Wörterbüchern bearbeitet
Author	Carl Cappeller
Year / size	1887 · ~541 pages
Direction	Sanskrit → German
Accents	Yes (marked on headwords)
Source	`csl-orig/v02/ccs/`
Open	Basic · List · Advanced · Mobile
Data	Downloads
csl-doc	ccs.rst (front matter)

Two Cappellers

CCS (this page) is Cappeller's German dictionary (1887). CAE is his Sanskrit→English Dictionary (1891) — the same compact scheme, also distilled from the Petersburg lexica, but glossed in English. Pick by the gloss language you want.

When to use it

Reach for CCS when you want a quick German gloss without wading through the multi-volume Petersburg dictionaries it summarizes. It complements:

Böhtlingk-Roth (PWG) and Böhtlingk shorter (PW) — the full German works CCS distills (and Schmidt's Nachträge (SCH) supplements).
Monier-Williams (MW) — the broad English reference.

Looking up a word

Open the Basic display, choose your input/output transliteration (see Encoding & Transliteration), and type the headword. The List and Advanced displays browse the index and search inside entries — see Search & Display.

Reading an entry

Cappeller sets the Sanskrit in {#…#} and the grammatical labels / German cues in {%…%} (italic); the running glosses are plain German. The entry aṃśa (csl-orig/v02/ccs/ccs.txt):

<L>3<pc>001-1<k1>aMSa<k2>a/MSa
{#a/MSa#}¦ {%m.%} Teil, Erbteil, Partei; {%N. eines Gottes.%}
{#aMSena#} teilweise.

In the source	Meaning
`<pc>001-1`	page-column reference (p. 1, col. 1)
`{#a/MSa#}`	the headword (`a/` = the accented á; search key `<k1>` is SLP1)
`{%m.%}`	grammatical label — masculine
`Teil, Erbteil, Partei`	the German glosses ("part, inheritance-share, faction")
`{%N. eines Gottes.%}`	"Name of a god" (`N.` = Name)
`{#aMSena#} teilweise.`	a key form given with its gloss — instrumental aṃśena "partially"

See Data Formats for the markup reference.

What makes it distinctive

A compact distillation of the Petersburg lexica. One German volume standing in for the multi-volume Böhtlingk-Roth — fast to consult, terse by design.
German, and accented. Glosses are in German; headwords carry the Vedic accent.
Has an English twin. Cappeller's CAE (1891) applies the same scheme in English.

Headword key conventions

<k1> is SLP1 (accent-free); <k2> carries the udātta / on the accented vowel — the only difference between the two keys. CCS consistently marks headword accents.

Convention	Marker / form	Example	Note
Search key	SLP1, no accent	`aMSa`	Type without `/` to search
Accent in display key	`/` on the accented vowel in `<k2>`	`a/MSa` → áṃśa	Visible in headword lists; never type it
Grammar label	`{%m.%}` in italic	`{%m.%}`	Grammatical label inside `{%…%}`
Page reference	`<pc>page-col`	`<pc>001-1` = p. 1, col. 1	Two-column layout

Abbreviations

No machine-readable abbreviation list yet; the legend lives in the scanned front matter. View front matter →

At a glance​

When to use it​

Looking up a word​

Reading an entry​

What makes it distinctive​

Headword key conventions​

Abbreviations​

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