Created: 13-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

The CDSL guides site has been scaffolded with Docusaurus, covering five sections — Using the Site, Dictionaries, Tools, Contributing, and Developers — plus an FAQ.

Created: 29-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

2025 was a year of expanded reach: the Frisch Sanskrit Reader was added as a new dictionary, the PWG link-splitting programme resolved dozens of compound literary-source references, a large-scale XML transformation was undertaken, and search transliteration handling was improved for the first time in several years.

Created: 29-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

2024 was a year of deep structural work: a major XML conversion brought the internal format of ten dictionaries into the modern Lbody standard, Monier-Williams received extensive page-link and display improvements, and the Böhtlingk-Roth link-target programme continued with new literary sources.

Created: 29-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

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.

Created: 14-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

The Abhidhānacintāmaṇi of Hemacandra (ABCH), a classical Sanskrit–Sanskrit thesaurus, was added to the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries, and the site version was raised to 2.5.0.

Created: 14-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

The CDSL digitization of Grassmann's Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda (GRA) received a major revision, deepening its structured markup.

Created: 29-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

2022 was the first year with a full run of monthly newsletters, and it reflected a project at full pace: a new dictionary was added, Monier-Williams received major manual accent corrections, Boehtlingk's Indische Sprüche proofreading was completed, and high-quality color scans replaced earlier grayscale pages.

Created: 14-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

A link to the DSAL Pali dictionary was added to the CDSL home page, giving Sanskrit users a quick jump to the neighbouring Pali lexical resource.

Created: 29-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

2021 was one of the most active years in the project's GitHub history: the Devanāgarī display layer launched, Boehtlingk's Indische Sprüche entered preparation, several dictionaries received extensive markup improvements, and the correction workflow was formalized with new tooling for users and contributors.

Created: 14-06-2026 · Last updated: 05-09-2026

Pāṇinian references in the Monier-Williams dictionary (MW) were linked, connecting its citations of Pāṇini's grammar to their targets.