Kalpadru Kosh Vol 02

SR No.: 016139
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kesava, Srikant Sharma
Publisher: Oriental Institute
Publication Year: 1932
Total Pages: 302
Language: Hindi
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 17 MB

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PREFACE.
The first volume of the Kesavakalpadru was published in 1928 as No. XLII of the Gaekwad's Oriental Series under the editorship of Mahamahopadhyāya Pandit Rāmavatara Sarma Sahityācārya, Senior Professor of Sanskrit in the Patna Government College, who also gave an introduction tracing the origin, history and development of the Lexical literature of India and an elaborate bibliography of Sanskrit works on Indian Lexicography. The untimely death of the Mahamahopadhyāya removes from the field of Indology an ardent worker and a specialist in Lexicography, and his place it will be difficult to fill up for a long time to come. The first volume is one of his last publications, and the introduction attached to the volume is the result of his life-long research in this fascinating branch of Sanskrit literature. The delay in bringing out the second volume is due to his sudden demise, which we deeply mourn; and probably, it would have been difficult to publish the second volume without the willing and generous co-operation of his brother Pandit Shrikanta Sharma who volunteered his services to bring his brother's half-finished work to a completion, for which the learned Pandit is warmly thanked.
The second volume now presented as No. LX of the Gaekwad's Oriental Scries contains an all-words-index of the Kesavakalpadru in alphabetical order with page and sloka references together with a few equivalents of obsolete words. The important work of indexing is very much neglected in modern times but without an index a lexicon, at least, certainly loses much of its value as a reference book.
BARODA, The 12th February,
1932.
GENERAL EDITOR.