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Essay name: Nighantu (critical study)

Author: Gopalakrishna N. Bhat
Affiliation: Karnatak University / Department of Sanskrit

This is an English study of the Nighantu and its commentary called the Nirukta by Yaska. The Nighantu is an ancient Sanskrit lexicon dealing with the words of the Vedic language. This essay presents a detailed analysis of the extant five chapters of this text and examines it's authorship, tracing meanings of words through Vedic texts by providing a comparative study involving Sayana's interpretations and connections with other texts like Amarakosa.

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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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in Every kanda is again divided into various sections. In the first three chapters the sections contain one thousand three hundred and fortyone words. The fourth chapter contains two hundred and seventy-nine aikapadika words in three groups and the fifth chapter has one hundred and fiftyone names of deities in six groups. A critical study of the Nighantu words on the basis of their arrangement in the Nighantu by tracing the words in the Vedas and in Yaska's Nirukta has been a desideratum in the field of Vedic studies. Here is an attempt to fill . up the lacuna of a critical study of the earliest known lexicon i.e. Nighantu, by tracing the meaning of the words in the Vedas in general and on the basis of the interpreta- tion of Raveda given by Sayana in particular. I have arrived at the conclusion about the approach in the arrange- ment of words in the Nighantu, which can be a contribution to the study of Vedic lore. The eight chapters of the thesis are divided mainly into three parts: PART-I There are two chapters in this part: Ist Chapter: After giving a brief introduction about the Nighantu, a comparative study of the extant Nighaná¹­u 1

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