lexicon lust

Saturday at Moe’s I found a recent reprint of the great Monier-Williams dictionary of Sanskrit (1899) for $35, about a quarter of what I had expected to pay someday for it. Whee. I find, by the way, that Indian printing has much improved since the Seventies.

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One Response to lexicon lust

  1. Anton says:

    I’d love to have a version of it printed in Brahmī, the ancestor of all the Indian scripts, rather than in Devanāgarī, which is much younger than its subject matter.

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