This publication is no new ideas. The want of a complete Dictionary in the Sanscrit language similar to those numerous works in the European languages has been long felt.
The famous Amars Kosha merely gives the synonyms of the Gods & Godesses of the Earth, Hills, Forests, Cattles, Birds, Castes and of Ambiguous words with a few others, without any attempt at alphabetical arrangement. It was clearly never intended to serve the purposes of a Dictionary, and reference to any word out of even the limited number it contains, being most difficult, students would generally commit the whole to memory. The several compilations of more recent date, altho answering the purposes of a Dictionary better, are yet far from being sufficiently copious or complete. The Sanscrit English Dictionary by Mr. H. H Wilson, and the English Sanscrit Dictionary by Mr. M. Williams, are indeed valuable works of their kind; but their value is confined to those students who can understand both English and Sanscrit, and can afford to purchase such expensive works.
It would appear the late Mr. Goday Sooria Pracasa Row felt the want of a work similar to the present whilst studying Sanscrit himself, and in latter years, when a perfect knowledge of the English language and association with English friends enabled him to engraft into Hindu life the improvements of the Western arts and sciences, he conceived the idea of a Sanscrit Dictionary compiled after the European model, and found in his own Preceptor a Scholar competent to the task.
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