Sanskrit Shabdakosh

Online Sanskrit Dictionary

Welcome to the online Sanskrit dictionary. This is an attempt to build up a repository of Sanskrit words and meanings in a simple, easy-to-extend format. We hope you find it useful and also contribute in adding more words to the collection. It is by no means a substitute for a printed dictionary or the famous on-line digitized dictionaries linked below.

The "Search" feature, available earlier, is temporarily disabled due to scripting problem. Till we sort it out, please use the complete files (text/ITX for search and others for display) or the Monier William's dictionary at Cologne which has both English and Sanskrit search engine.

A separate set of files is created only for numbers used in Sanskrit. Please see learning tools' section.

The complete dictionary is available in postscript / PDF / XDVNG / ITX / text formats.

There is a copyright on the dictionary files to the extent of preventing misuse on other internet sites and working as a disclaimer for the contents, as it was built by volunteers.

We recommend not to copy and post dictionary files on any other site since we periodically update and correct this list and we do not want different versions of file floating around the internet. We have seen people copying this work and calling it their own.

The different formats and their viewers are listed here. (If you want to view PDF file, please download it first and then view it independently.) These formats are updated more often than the file accessed by search utility. Please use text format for text search. There was an attempt to put the dictionary in a Visual Basic based script for easy search and display. Please refer to work by I. M. Chengappa.

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