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| The ''Amarakosha'' is a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called ''Trikanda'' or the "Tripartite". {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} It is also known as "Namalinganushasana".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Sujit|title=A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850|date=1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=9788125014539|page=249|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCJrUfVtZxoC |
The ''Amarakosha'' is a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called ''Trikanda'' or the "Tripartite". {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} It is also known as "Namalinganushasana".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Sujit|title=A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850|date=1998|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=9788125014539|page=249|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YCJrUfVtZxoC|accessdate=6 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> The ''Amarakosha'' contains 10,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class, in metre, to aid the memory. | ||
| The first chapter of the ''Kosha'' was printed at ] in Tamil character in 1798. An edition of the entire work, with English notes and an index by ] appeared at ] in 1808. The Sanskrit text was printed at ] in 1831. A French translation by ] was published at ] in 1839. {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} ] compiled the text in ] script with meanings in English and Kannada in 1927.<ref>''Amarakosha'' compiled by B.L. Rice edited by N.Balasubhramanya</ref> | The first chapter of the ''Kosha'' was printed at ] in Tamil character in 1798. An edition of the entire work, with English notes and an index by ] appeared at ] in 1808. The Sanskrit text was printed at ] in 1831. A French translation by ] was published at ] in 1839. {{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} ] compiled the text in ] script with meanings in English and Kannada in 1927.<ref>''Amarakosha'' compiled by B.L. Rice edited by N.Balasubhramanya</ref> | ||
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Amara Sinha (or Amara Simha, IAST: Amarasiṃha) (c. CE 375) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known. He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya," and according to the evidence of Xuanzang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II) who flourished about CE 375. Other sources describe him as belonging to the period of Vikramaditya of 7th century. Most of Amarasiṃha's work was destroyed, with the exception of the celebrated Amara-Kosha (IAST: Amarakośa) (Treasury of Amara). The first reliable mention of the Amarakosha is in the Amoghavritti of Shakatayana composed during the reign of Amoghavarsha (814-867CE)
The Amarakosha is a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called Trikanda or the "Tripartite". It is also known as "Namalinganushasana". The Amarakosha contains 10,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class, in metre, to aid the memory.
The first chapter of the Kosha was printed at Rome in Tamil character in 1798. An edition of the entire work, with English notes and an index by HT Colebrooke appeared at Serampore in 1808. The Sanskrit text was printed at Calcutta in 1831. A French translation by ALA Loiseleur-Deslongchamps was published at Paris in 1839. Lewis Rice compiled the text in Kannada script with meanings in English and Kannada in 1927.
References
- ^ "Amara-Simha" in Chambers's Encyclopædia. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 311.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Amarakosha compiled by B.L.Rice, edited by N.Balasubramanya, 1970, page X
- Literary and Historical Studies in Indology, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, , Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1975, p. 50-51
- Mukherjee, Sujit (1998). A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Beginnings-1850. Orient Blackswan. p. 249. ISBN 9788125014539. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- Amarakosha compiled by B.L. Rice edited by N.Balasubhramanya
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amara Sinha". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 781.
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