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.