वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

LEXICOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
The following list of words and meanings occurring in the Vāsavadattā,
which the St. Petersburg Sanskrit dictionaries either omit altogether¹ or cite
only from native lexicographers, is condensed from my ‘Lexicographical
Addenda to the St. Petersburg Lexicons from the Vāsavadattā of
Subandhu’ (ZDMG. 60. 355–368), and is, at the same time, supple-
mented by the material from the Madras edition of 1862 (which was then
unknown to me) and the Srirangam edition of 1906–1908, which appeared
subsequently to the study just mentioned.² The Hall, Madras, and
Srirangam texts are here denoted by the letters H, M, and S respectively,
but the latter two are cited only when they present words or meanings
not found in the edition of Hall. An asterisk () prefixed to a word or
meaning denotes that the St. Petersburg dictionaries cite only from
Sanskrit lexicographers, and a small circle (°) similarly prefixed implies
that the word or meaning in question is entirely omitted by the St.
Petersburg lexicons. The numbers within the parentheses refer to pages
and lines respectively of the editions employed.
a
*a* (H 113, 1): Viṣṇu.³
aṃśuka (M 67, 6; S 212, 1): °ray, beam of light.
¹ It should be noted in this connexion that a complete index to the Vāsavadattā
was prepared by Aufrecht and placed for a time at the disposal of Böhtlingk, who
excerpted from it what he deemed most important for his dictionary (Sanskrit-
Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung, 5. Introd., p. 1, St. Petersburg, 1884).
² Similar lists of words and meanings supplementary to those given in the St. Peters-
burg lexicons have recently been prepared by Meyer for the Kuṭṭanīmata and Samaya-
mātṛkā (in his Altindische Schelmenbücher, 2. 151–156, Leipzig, 1903), by Schmidt for
Appayyadīkṣita’s Kuvalayānandakārikā in his translation of the work (p. 147, Leipzig,
1907), by Jahn for the Saurapurāṇa (Das Saurapurāṇa, pp. 194–195, Strassburg, 1908),
by Schmidt and Hertel for Amitagati’s Subhāṣitasandōha (ZDMG. 59. 266–267),
by Schmidt for Rāma’s Manmathōnmāthana (ZDMG. 63. 411), by Oster for the
Bhōjaprabandha (in his Die Rezensionen des Bhojaprabandha, pp. 15–17, Darmstadt,
1911), by myself for Rājaśēkhara’s Viddhaśālabhañjikā (JAOS. 27. 7), and by Hertel
for Hemacandra’s Pariśiṣṭaparvan (ZDMG. 62. 361–369) and the Pañcatantra
(Pañcatantra, ed. Hertel, pp. 291–295, Cambridge, Mass., 1908). By far the most
important collection in the present connexion, however, is Thomas’s ‘Two Lists of
Words from Bāṇa’s Harṣacarita,’ in JRAS. 1899, pp. 485–517, a list closely analogous
to the one here presented from the Vāsavadattā. A similar study of the lexicography
of Bāṇa’s Kādambarī is still a desideratum.
³ Professor Otto Franke (card of Oct. 14, 1906) kindly calls my attention to
Bhagavadgīta, 10. 33, where Kṛṣṇa (Viṣṇu) says: akṣarāṇām akārō ’smi, ‘of letters
I am the A.’