1858.] Professor Wilson's Sanskrit Diet. 307 



and "^ranTPT«r" for " ^pajKHTG." We should, farther, write ' Bri- 

 haspati' for " Vrihaspafci," '^j^str' for "^T^" £ ^NW for 

 "^ffa," '^rTT^TW' for " wfir^PST," '^ff^T^' for " ^frr^m" and 

 "^%*fW for "^frpffar," The neuter "Brahma" occurs written 

 "Brahman" also. 



How far Dr. Goldstiicker has consulted the native vocabularies is 

 left pretty much to conjecture. Many compilations of this kind, 

 unknown to Professor Wilson, could be procured, in this country, 

 without difficulty ; and probably not one of them, however insigni- 

 ficant or unoriginal, would be without value. Such as have fallen, 

 as it were spontaneously, in the way of the writer of these lines, 

 are here enumerated. 



1. — The Amara-Jcos' a-vivriti, by Lingaya Vangala, commonly called 

 Liugam Bhatta. The author is said to have lived in the south. 

 A commentary on Amara. 



2. — The JBudlia-manohara, by Mahadeva, surnamed the Vedautin. 

 Another commentary on the Amara-kos a. Imperfect, so far as seen. 



3. — The Ndma-ratndhara, by Koi Deva. 



4. — The Nama-sangralia-mald, by Appayya Dikshita — not Arya 

 Dikshita. 



5. — The S'ahda-prakasa, digested at the instance of some Muham- 

 madau of note, whom the author styles " Khana Nripati." It is a 

 dictionary of homonymes. The only MS. which we know of is 

 defective. It was copied in the Samvat year 1575. 



6. — The S'abda-prabheda, by Mahes'wara. This is a work of small 

 extent, on words variously written, and is in verse. It is not to be 

 confounded with a section of like character in the Vis'ioa-prakcts'a, 

 which likewise has a Mahes'wara for its author. 



7. — The Ndiidrtha-Jcos'a, by S'aYwata. 



8. — The Ndndrtha-ratna-tilaka, perhaps by Mahipa. It was com- 

 posed in the year 1430, of an unspecified era. 



9. — The Lakshmi-niv&sabhidhana, by S'lvarama Tripathin, the scho- 



goats, which he nourished. Whatever the absurdity of the story, it has its 

 worth, to the maker of a mythological dictionary, in determining the correctness 

 of a long syllable as against a short one. That the text is not depraved is 

 presumed. 



