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(iii) Terms pertaining to the arm, e. g., प्रकोष्ठ, करभ, प्रदेशिनी, अनामिका, म्याम, प्रादेश. वित्तस्ति, प्रतल, रत्नि, अरत्नि.
(iv) Terms pertaining to speech, eg., वाक्य प्रस्त, निरस्त कल्य, अश्लील. (v) Terms pertaining to colours, eg., श्वेत, बभ्रु, पिशङ्ग, शोण.
(vi) Terms pertaining to time, e. g, माधव, नमस् नभस्य, ऊर्ज, सदस्, तपस्य, राका, अनुमति, शिनीवाली, कुडू.
(vii) Terms pertaining to learning, e. g., aft, araf, eqfa.
(viii) Terms pertaining to the sacrifice, eg. होतृ, अध्वर्यु सोमपायिन् दीक्षित यष्टृ, हभ्य, कल्प.
(ix) Terms pertaining to woman, og., वोरा, सैरन्ध्री, कात्यायनी.
(x) Terms pertaining to the body, c g. कूर्च, तारका, जघन, नितम्ब, गुल्फ, and so on.
In the treatment of indeclinables the author has drawn no distinction between those that convey only one meaning () and those that convey more than one meaning (). The different denotations are here generllay put in the af, e. g.,
उखाणे फडत्याहुर्वषट् वौषट् तु तर्पणे । ( ५, २७ )
Thus the is not a merely homonymous lexicon like the शाश्वतकोश or the अनेकार्थध्वनिमञ्जरी. Nor is its title also confined to such a limited denotation. Nevertheless it does not tend to be a complete lexicon like the . It leaves synonyms out of its scope and hence it excludes a large number of common words that enrich the vocabulary of synonymous lexicons. Excepting the section of technical terms, the lexicon mostly appears to be a homonymous work. But even homonyms form a very small number in comparision to those given in a homonymous lexicon like the शाश्वतकोश.
The author: The colophons of the work contain no reference to the author. Nor do the verses of the text make any allusion to him. Thus the manuscripts contain no internal source of information about the author of the work. Nor do we come across any external data whereby we can definitely ascribe the work to. an author known from other the If the be as the शब्दरत्नदीप, it may be attributed to Kalyana-malla who is known to be the author of the latter. But as long as we cannot ascertain the identity of the two works, the author of the remains unknown to us.
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