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Here is the August 2026 edition of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries newsletter, covering the activity of the past month. Significant work this period: a complete literary-source overhaul of the Benfey dictionary, a second and much deeper security hardening pass across the web interfaces, a multi-dictionary endpoint for the new structured API, and the preface digitisation effort maturing from raw OCR into machine-readable abbreviation data.

Here is the July 2026 edition of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries newsletter, covering the activity of the past month. Significant work this period: a broad preface digitisation sweep, a new dictionary added to the online search, security hardening across all the server-side code, and the first release of the new structured API for Monier-Williams.

The first half of 2026 brought the most visible changes to the CDSL project in years: a comprehensive new documentation site, preface texts for sixteen dictionaries, a new API layer, a new shared transcoding library, and sustained daily correction work — all alongside a programme of security hardening across every server-side codebase.

Dear Sanskrit scholars, students, and dictionary enthusiasts,

After a three-year hiatus, the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries newsletter is back — and this time it will reach you by email. If you are reading this on the web, you can subscribe here to receive future editions directly.

A great deal has happened over the past months, and there is much to share.

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.

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.