Compare dictionaries side by side, and learn to read Monier-Williams

Two new things on the guides this cycle:

• a live side-by-side dictionary comparison — type one Sanskrit word and read its entry across Monier-Williams, Apte, Böhtlingk-Roth, and Grassmann at once, fetched live from the Cologne CDSL API, and
• a "Reading Monier-Williams" guide with 69 practice quizzes — the four levels of MW's alphabetical order, its symbols, and tracing a word to its dhātu, with self-check questions that link straight to live CDSL entries.

Try the comparison widget on the Multi-Dictionary page: each column resolves the headword per dictionary (the same lemma is keyed differently — MW stems agni, Apte keys the nominative agniH) and renders the real entry.

The new Reading Monier-Williams page teaches MW's etymological structure and then lets you test yourself. Every lookup and every traced dhātu links to its CDSL entry id (the digital record's lnum); all 47 print page+column citations were verified against the digital MW source, so the answers double as a cross-check between the print and the digital edition.

See the catalog for the full list of 42 dictionaries.