JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. IV. 1858. 



A few remarJcs on the first fasciculus of Professor Wilson's Sanskrit 

 Dictionary, as " extended and improved" by Dr. Goldstucker, — 

 by Fitz-Edward Hall, M. A. 



The first eighty pages of the work in question — all of it that we 

 have yet seen — correspond to a little more than twenty-nine pages 

 of Professor Wilson's dictionary in its second impression. No 

 small portion, indeed, of this increase of matter is only apparent, 

 and due to a more sumptuous style of typography ; and yet Dr. 

 Goldstiicker's own additions are by no means inconsiderable. The 

 literature of the Yeda, and of Sanskrit law, medicine, philosophy, and 

 rhetoric will doubtless be rendered much easier of acquisition than 

 formerly, if the editor carries his design to the end on the same 

 plan with that of its commencement. The subject of etymology 

 has, also, at last received the attention of a scholar familiar with 

 the terminology of the native grammarians ; and, if only as a 

 necessary consequence, the arrangement of the significations of 

 homonymes is now noticeably less bewildering than it was of old. 

 In general, there is scarcely a page of the new revision that does 

 not testify to extensive research and to great and conscientious 

 labour. 



On the other hand, Dr. Goldstiicker's scheme appears to us to 

 be, in some respects, susceptible of amendment. Why, for instance, 

 the constantly recurring compounds, which even the merest tyro 

 can resolve for himself, when he meets them ? The vocabulary of 

 the Sanskrit has, for artificial copiousness, a very imperfect analogue, 



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