{"id":3353,"date":"2003-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/08\/01\/2003-08-01-sanskrit-dictionary-project-completes-a\/"},"modified":"2003-08-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-01T12:00:00","slug":"2003-08-01-sanskrit-dictionary-project-completes-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/08\/01\/2003-08-01-sanskrit-dictionary-project-completes-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanskrit Dictionary Project Completes &#8220;A&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2003\/07\/26\/international1225EDT0498.DTL\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>PUNE, INDIA, July 26, 2003: For three generations, they have compiled and argued, agonized and transcribed &#8212; toiling in monastic tedium to turn an intricate language into six volumes, so far. They have delved into the grammatical roots of &#8220;antahpravesakama&#8221; and debated the pun hidden in &#8220;anangada.&#8221; They&#8217;ve done a brain-numbingly complete dissection of &#8220;anekakrta.&#8221; Now, 55 years after a group of scholars began composing the authoritative dictionary of Sanskrit, the language of India&#8217;s ancient glory, they are almost done &#8212; with the first letter. &#8220;Sanskrit,&#8221; sighed Vinayaka Bhatta, chief editor of Deccan College&#8217;s dictionary project, &#8220;is not easy to translate.&#8221; The project has consumed the skills of more than two dozen scholars (so far), cataloged 9 million citations of Sanskrit terms and given the most thorough of definitions to thousands of words. All this in a language replete with puns, metaphors and multiple meanings. The low estimate to completing the project? At least another 50 years.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourcePUNE, INDIA, July 26, 2003: For three generations, they have compiled and argued, agonized and transcribed &#8212; toiling in monastic,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}