A New Supplement Dictionary of Sanskrit

梵语起源于公元前两千年，对于有关印欧语言学和比较文化研究的问题来说，它是不可或缺的。在印度历史的大部分时间里，梵语是占主导地位的泛印度文化语言，其丰富的前现代科学和文献语料库在其他前现代文明中是无与伦比的。即使在现代和当代印度，它也保留了其规范和身份形成的力量。梵语词汇传达了可追溯到4000年前的意义世界，两部划时代的参考著作--所谓的彼得级词典(PW 1875，PW 1889)--使人们能够获得这一词汇，这两部词典从未被取代。1928年，R·施密特在他的副刊中试图捕捉梵文文本的新发现或初版的快速发展，以及历史语言学和单字研究的研究。此后，研究现状与其在词典编纂中的表现之间的差距不断拉大。彼得罗格莱德词典的附录以及大量的词汇研究和词汇表在各地出版，甚至启动了新的大规模词典项目，例如Poona词典，虽然它无法完成字母表的第一个字母，但仍然只能不完全和偶然地确定对特定单词的实际研究状况。对于21世纪有关梵文文本的大部分实际工作来说，19世纪的大型词典仍然是主要的来源。为了纠正这种从学术角度来看肯定不能容忍的情况，一本累积补充词典必须批判性地审查词典编纂研究的进展，并列出所有涉及成熟的Petrograd词典的增补。因此，与其他只有在完成后才能充分利用的词典项目不同，所有增编和补编都将在一个具有足够搜索功能和调查设施的互联网门户网站上提供。从长远来看，我们的目标是建立一个科隆数字梵文词典和所有附录和副刊统一整合的在线门户网站。在三年的时间里(2009-2012年)，哈雷大学资助了初步工作(寻找要评估的来源、汇编Sigla、制定投入方案等)。对于这个项目，系统可以在测试运行中进行微调。因此，在该项目开始工作后不久，就可以获得《累积补充词典》的首批词条。

The Sanskrit language has its roots in the 2nd millenium B.C. and is indispensable for queries concerning Indo-European linguistics as well as comparative cultural studies. For the greater part of Indian history Sanskrit was the dominating pan-Indian cultured language and the richness of its pre-modern corpus of sciences and literatures has no counter-part in other pre-modern civilizations. It has retained its normative and identity forming power even into modern and contemporary India. The vocabulary of Sanskrit, which transports worlds of meaning that reach back up to four thousand years, was made accessible in two epochmaking reference works, the so-called Petrograde dictionaries (PW 1875, pw 1889), which have never been superseded. In his supplement volume R. Schmidt attempted in 1928 to capture the rapid development of new findings or first editions of Sanskrit texts as well asresearches in historical linguistics and studies of single words. Since, the gap between the actual state of research and its representation in lexicography widens continuously. Addenda to the Petrograde dictionary as well as an inordinate number of word studies and glossaries were published in various places, even new large-scale dictionary projects were initiated , as for instance the Poona dictionary that, however, could not finish the first letter of the alphabet, but the actual state of research on a specific word can still be ascertained only incompletely and by accident. For most of the practical work with Sanskrit texts in the 21st century the large dictionaries of the 19th century are still the main source. In order to remedy this situation, surely intolerable from an academic perspective, a cumulative supplementary dictionary would have to critically review the advancement of lexicographical studies and list all additions referring to the well-established Petrograde dictionary. Thus, unlike other dictionary projects which can only be fully used after their completion, all addenda and supplements will be made available on an internet portal with adequate search functions and investigation facilities. Perspectively, we aim at an online portal in which the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries and all addenda and supplements are homogeneously integrated. In the course of three years (2009-2012) the University of Halle funded the preliminary work (search for sources to be evaluated, compilation of sigla, development of input schemes etc.) for this project and the system could be fine-tuned in a test-run. As a result the first entries to a Cumulative Supplement Dictionary would be available soon after the commencement of work on the project.