A Critical Edition of the Mankhakosha with its Commentary

在历史上很长一段时间里，梵语一直是南亚大多数地区诗歌、政治、宗教和文化的文化语言，有时延伸到中亚和东南亚的部分地区。这种语言受到次大陆不断增长的语法传统的高度规范，但也通过单语词典（kosha）的语料库来帮助学习者，并作为读者和评论员的参考。这些古代和中世纪的词典具有规范的力量，但有些也试图记录实际文学中单词的用法，从而更新语言的公认词汇。在这个语料库中，诗人曼卡（Mankha）所写的词典在许多方面都是独一无二的，他在12世纪生活在克什米尔。作者试图捕捉以前未记录的单词的新含义，并在他的自动注释中提供了从实际文献中引用的含义。该文本仅在1897年编辑过一次，因此来得太晚，无法被纳入目前仍在使用的梵语学术词典。其引语的价值不仅在于它为词语和意义提供了早期的证据，而且还使我们能够更精确地确定引用的作者和文本的年代。然而，所有这些都不能在1897年的版本中实现，其中的注释文本仅以小而零碎的摘录形式出现。目前的项目将产生一个文本和评论的批判版本，从而使Mankhakosha的词汇和评论中的证词对梵语词典编纂以及依赖梵语来源的前现代印度研究的许多其他分支都是可访问的。

For a long period in history Sanskrit has been the cultured language of poetry, politics, religion and culture in most South Asian regions, extending at times to parts of Central as well as South East Asia. The language was kept highly regulated by the proliferating grammatical traditions of the subcontinent, but also through a corpus of monolingual lexica (kosha) that aided the learner and served as reference to readers and commentators. These ancient and medieval dictionaries had normative power, but some also tried to record the usage of words in actual literature and thereby to update the recognised vocabulary of the language.Among this corpus the lexicon composed by the poet Mankha, who lived in Kashmir during the twelfth century, is in many respectsunique. The author tries to capture new senses of words previously unrecorded, and he provides in his autocommentary quotations from actual literature for the senses given. The text has been edited only once in 1897 and thus came too late to be included in the still current academic Sanskrit lexica. The value of its quotations lies not only in the fact that it provides early testimonia for words and senses, they also enable us to date authors and texts quoted with more precision. All this can, however, not be achieved by the edition of 1897, in which the text of the commentary appears only in the form of small and fragmented extracts.The present project will produce a critical edition of the text and commentary and thereby make the vocabulary of the Mankhakosha and the testimonia in the commentary accessible to Sanskrit lexicography as well as to the many other branches of pre-modern Indian studies that depend on Sanskrit sources.