Lexica

Lexica - Search is a web interface giving access to definitions from two Sanskrit-Tibetan word lists and a Sanskrit-English dictionary.

Lexical databases currently available:

1. Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary: v0.3 RC1^†
2. Mahāvyutpatti: version 0.1a_04 (Legacy - due to be updated)
3. Yogācārabhūmi: version 0.1a_07 (Legacy - due to be updated)

Available search strategies:

1. Return Definitions
2. Match headwords exactly
3. Match prefixes
4. Match substring occurring anywhere in a headword
5. Match suffixes
6. POSIX 1003.2 (modern) regular expressions
7. Old (basic) regular expressions
8. Match using SOUNDEX algorithm
9. Match headwords within Levenshtein distance one
10. Match separate words within headwords

N.B.: Any DICT Client can retrieve definitions from the IeB DICT server. Please connect to: indica-et-buddhica.org:2629

^† A \\ Sanskrit-English Dictionary by Sir Monier Monier-Williams \\ Indica et Buddhica Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) Version 0.3 RC1 \\ Conversion to DICT from Cologne Source version by \\ Richard Mahoney \\ Indica et Buddhica \\ Oxford, North Canterbury \\ 2008. See: 1.) Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries : This web page provides access to some of the Sanskrit lexicons prepared by the Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies, Cologne University; 2.) Marking Monier: Current state of digitized Monier-Williams Dictionary , by Jim Funderburk, Honesdale, Pennsylvania & Thomas Malten, University of Cologne (May, 2008); and 3.) Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Downloads : MONIER2008.ALL forms the basis for the current Indica et Buddhica DICT version. The author would like to express his deep gratitude to Dr Thomas Malten for kindly permitting a new release of the DICT version based on the most recent version of the Cologne source file.