Sanskrit-Chinese Lexicon: being Fan Fan Yu, the first known lexicon of its kind dated to AD 517
Lokesh Chandra (Ed.)
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Book ID : 32171
ISBN-10 : 81-7742-074-7 / 8177420747
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7742-074-6 / 9788177420746
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2007
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English & Chinese
Transcribed, reconstructed and translated by Prof. Dr. Raghu Vira and his disciple Dr. Yamamoto Chikyo; xiv, 269p., App., Index, 29 cm. (Satapitaka Series No. 621)
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The Sanskrit-Chinese Lexicon is a transcription, reconstruction and translation of the Chinese work Fan Fan Yu, compiled from status, vinaya, sastrs and lost travel accounts. It is the earliest known thematic lexicon of Sanskrit compiled by the eminent Chinese monk Pao-ch’ang in AD 517. It includes words from lost Chinese translation of Buddhist sutras. The names of Central Asian and cities, monasteries and caityas quoted from the records of the travels of Chih-meng and T’ang-wu-chieh are of historic importance. The present translation of his Lexicon will provide valuable materials for the study of Buddhism in Central Asia, India, Srilanka, Indonesia and China. Scholarswill be able to take up the analysis of this Lexicon as a source for the history and geography of the aforesaid country of Asia. Prof. Lokesh Chandra has edited this book from three drafts and notes by his father the late Prof. Raghu Vira and Prof. Yamamoto Cikyo. This posthumous work is a tribute to the academic contributions of Prof. Raghu Vira and his Japaneas disciple Dr. Yamamoto.
