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Kośa

Kośa is the native tradition of Sanskrit lexicography. The works in this tradition are primarily meant to help poets in composition. The earliest extant Sanskrit lexicographic work is the Nighaṇṭu, a list of Vedic words giving synonyms, rare words, deity names, etc. One of the most important and popular native Sanskrit lexicons is Amarasiṃha's Amarakośa (c. 500 AD), which is for the most part a thesaurus giving synonyms (mainly nouns, adjectives, and indeclinables) together with their gender.

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Ancient Indian linguistics

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References

Huet, Gérard (2019), 'Sanskrit lexicography, past and future.' Linguistics None: 1-12.

Journal Article

Vogel, Claus (1979), Indian Lexicography. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.

Texts

The Amarakośa (a.k.a. Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana or Trikāṇḍī) is (one of) the most important indigenous Sanskrit lexicon(s). It has received many commentaries. Its author is Amarasiṃha.

The Rāmāśramī (a.k.a. Vyākhyāsudhā) of Bhānujidīkṣita is a commentary on the Amarakośa. This commentary gives details of grammatical information (e.g. technical derivation) of the words in the Amar...

Authors

Amarasiṃha was the author of the Nāmaliṅgānuśāsana, also called the Amarakośa. He was a Buddhist.

Bhānujidīkṣita

Bhānujidīkṣita was the son of Bhaṭṭojidīkṣita and was patronised by king Kīrtisiṃha of the Veghela dynasty.