Tulsi Prajna 1992 10

SR No.: 524572
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1992
Total Pages: 160
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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TULSI-PRAJÑA, Oct.-Dec., 1992
The Prussian minister W. voc Humboldt, a scholar, linguist and philosopher, studied the Bhagavadgītā and was deeply moved by it, Due to his initiative, a second chair of Indology was established in Berlin in 1820. Bopp was the first professor of Indology in the Prussian capital. When Bopp was 25 years of age, he wrote a thesis showing the relationship between Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages. He is regarded as the founder of comparative linguistics. Eventually, other universities too established chairs of Indology, Consequently research in all fields of Indological studies-language, literature, religion, sciences, philosophy and art-was undertaken in the 19th century. The most important trends in modern German Indology are briefly mentioned in the following summary of the different subjects.
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Dictionaries, Grammars and Works of Reference
In order to understand and translate texts, a good dictionary was required. For more than a century, German-speaking scholars have used the two so-called Petersburg-Dictionaries. Two German scholars O. van Boehtlingk and R. van Roth worked on the big Petersburg Dictionary which appeared in 1852-1875. It has recently been translated into English and published in India. It can be superseded only by the "Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical Principles", currently being compiled in Pune. The first part of the third volume, treating adh to adhi has appeared in 1982. O.van Boehttlingk also compiled a shorter Sanskrit-German Dictionary, 1879-89. Beginners, who do not require an expensive dictionary in several volumes, use C. Capeller's Sanskrit-German Dictionary, Strassburg 1887, reprinted 1966. A new dictionary was prepared by K. Mylius (Leipzig) 1975. At Geottingen University a dictionary of Buddhist Sanskrit, Sanskrit Woerterbuch der Buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfanfunden, is in the process of being edited by G. von Simson, the fifth issue appeared in 1987.
Primers for Sanskrit were written by A. Stenzler, G. Buehler, F. Kielhorn, and W. Gerger. F. Stenzler's grammar, the 17th edition of which appeared in 1980, remains the most widely used one. The most comprehensive description of Sanskrit is J. Wackernagel's Altindische Grammatik, 189, to which A. Debrunner and R. Hauschild also contributed. A. Thumb's Handbuch des Sanskrit was revised by R. Hauschild, 1950-59. A new text book for Sanskrit was published by W. Morgenroth, (Berlin) in 1973. M. Mayrhofer (Wien) compiled an Etymological Dictionary in 3 vols., Heidelberg, 1956-76. P. Thieme (Tuebingen) and K. Hoffmann (Edangen) published a