CDSL 2023 Year in Review
2023 brought a major revision of the Grassmann dictionary, the formal installation of the L.R. Vaidya dictionary, more than 1,100 user corrections applied, and the addition of a new dictionary — Hemachandra's Abhidhānachintāmaṇi — bringing the corpus to version 2.5.0.
GRA: comprehensive revision
The Grassmann Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda (GRA) underwent its most significant revision to date in July 2023. The work, coordinated by Jim Funderburk with contributions from @Andhrabharati, @maltenth, and @fxru, included: identification and tagging of abbreviations (<ab>) and literary sources (<ls>); the <lang> tag repurposed to identify related-language cross-references; structured tagging of Rig-Veda references; and integration of Grassmann's own Verbesserungen und Nachtrage (corrections and additions) section using a new <chg> element. New high-resolution Bayer scans were uploaded to replace earlier scan pages.
LRV formally installed
The L.R. Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary, whose data had been added to csl-orig in late 2022, was formally installed on the Cologne website in April 2023. It is now searchable alongside the other CDSL dictionaries.
Over 1,100 user corrections applied
The backlog of user-submitted corrections — issues 1,121 through 1,239 in the csl-orig tracker — was processed in June 2023. This was one of the largest single correction batches in the project's history, reflecting the active community of readers who report errors against the original print editions.
ABCH added: corpus reaches version 2.5.0
In December 2023, Hemachandra's Abhidhānachintāmaṇi (ABCH) — a classical Sanskrit thesaurus — was added to the CDSL, with further Hemachandra-related dictionaries (ACPH, ACSJ) planned. The addition prompted a version increment to 2.5.0, the first major version change in several years.
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