विष्णु स्मृति (वैष्णव धर्मशास्त्र - नन्दपण्डित कृत वैजयन्ती टीका सहित सटीक)

6 PREFACE.
which are either not given at all in the great Petersburg Dic-
tionary, or to which it has become necessary, in the translation
and notes, to assign other, or more special, or more closely defined
meanings, than those given in that standard thesaurus of Sanskrit
words. The upwards of 370 words, of which the Index is made
up, will go far to prove that the Vishṇu-smṛiti is perhaps hardly
less important for the purposes of lexicography, than for the
study of Indian Antiquities.* The most important among the
words contained in the first Index have been communicated by
me at various times to Dr. von Böhtlingk, and will be found
inserted in their places in the hitherto published fasciculi of his
new Dictionary; but it has been thought advisable to annex, at
least, as complete a list of this kind as possible to the present
publication, as a full Index of all the Sanskrit words contained
in the Vishṇu-smṛiti would have far exceeded the limits assigned
to it.
The second Index contains the Pratîkas of the Vedic Mantras
quoted or referred to in the Vishṇu-smṛiti. Those places in the
Saṃhitâs and other Vedic works, where the entire Mantras in
question may be found, have been indicated in the Notes to the
Translation.

• The new meanings which have been assigned in the translation to
  a certain number of terms in the final and introductory and two or
  three other Vishṇuitic chapters, might perhaps seem far-fetched and
  objectionable from an European point of view. But their correctness
  is warranted by the authority of Nandapaṇḍita, S'aṅkara, Sâyaṇa,
  Devapâla and other native commentators, whose statements have
  particular weight for the interpretation of such modern and highly
  artificial compositions as the Vishṇuitic portions of the present work.
  For a detailed attempt at distinguishing the modern accretions to
  the Vishṇu-smṛiti from the original stock, see the Introduction to the
  Translation (in Sacred Books of the East, vol. VII).