Guest guest Posted July 16, 2002 Report Share Posted July 16, 2002 Dear List Members, Can you please help me with a clarification? I am trying to find out some more details about the Persian 'encyclopedia'/'lexicon' 'Farhang-e Anandraj. In particular, I want to know the place where it was composed -- it is said to be 'Vijayanagar' in South India. Can some list memeber please tell me which place was called Vijayanagar in 1888-89? Thank you, Dileep (PS: Here is an excerpt from the The Encyclopaedia Iranica (edited by Prof. Ehsanullah Yar-e Shater) (Vol. 9, Page 266): -- Farhang-e Anandraj, a dictionary of the Persian language named in honor of the maharaja Anand Gajapati Raj, the ruler of Vijayanagar in South India. It was compiled in 1306/1888-89 by the maharaja's chief secretary (mir monshi), the poet and lexicographer Mohammad Padshah bin Golam Mohi-al-Din, known by his penname Shad. … Farhang-e Anandraj contained about fifty thousand word entries; it was the first dictionary of the Persian language of this size. Besides Persian vocabulary, it included Arabic loanwords as well as some words of Turkic, Indian, Greek, and Latin origin. The aim of the author was to bring together all the information found in all earlier Persian dictionaries, which – in his view – were incomplete. … Farhang-e Anandraj is a compilation, and the author took whole articles from earlier dictionaries, making no changes. … Shad's dictionary thus epitomizes the achievements of the centuries- old Persian tradition in lexicon compilation and marks a transition to the use of European methods of lexicography. Solomon Baevskii --------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2002 Report Share Posted July 17, 2002 INDOLOGY, "dskaranth" <dskaranth> wrote: > Dear List Members, > > Can you please help me with a clarification? > > I am trying to find out some more details about the > Persian 'encyclopedia'/'lexicon' 'Farhang-e Anandraj. In particular, > I want to know the place where it was composed -- it is said to > be 'Vijayanagar' in South India. > > Can some list memeber please tell me which place was called > Vijayanagar in 1888-89? Most likely Vizianagaram in Andhra Pradesh, about which the AP guide online says : Location: 64-km From Vishakhapatnam Built By: Gajapati Chiefs 64-km from Vishakhapatnam, Vizianagaram is a place of historical importance. It was the capital of the Gajapati chiefs in the 17th century AD The magnificent fort in this town depicts the past glory of these Kings. The town has grown around the fort, on the west of which is the former cantonment. This place attained great prominence in the past as the centre of arts and culture under the patronage of the enlightened ruling family of Vizianagaram. It has a Music College and a Sanskrit College. And, if I am correct, a member of the erstwhile royal family, Vizzy, was a cricket commentator in the 60s on AIR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 4, 2002 Report Share Posted August 4, 2002 INDOLOGY, "dskaranth" <dskaranth> wrote: > (PS: Here is an excerpt from the > The Encyclopaedia Iranica (edited by Prof. Ehsanullah Yar-e Shater) > (Vol. 9, Page 266): > -- > Farhang-e Anandraj, a dictionary of the Persian language named in > honor of the maharaja Anand Gajapati Raj, the ruler of Vijayanagar in > South India. It was compiled in 1306/1888-89 by the maharaja's chief > secretary (mir monshi), the poet and lexicographer Mohammad Padshah > bin Golam Mohi-al-Din, known by his penname Shad. Gajapati is originally a royal title of the Kings of Orissa. On how Gajapatis came to Vizianagaram, Shishir Kumar Panda, 1985, The Krishna-Godavari delta: A bone of contention between the Gajapatis of Orissa and The Raayas of Vijayanagara. I:88-96, 1985, A-L. Dallapiccola et al., Vijayanagara - City and Empire: New currents of Research. Stuttgart. Browsing the Index pages, I see an entire page devoted to Gajapatis in: P. B. Wagoner, Tidings of the King, A translation and ethnohistorical analysis of the Rayavacakamu, UHawaii press, 1993. Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faizahmed340 Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 Vizianagaram is approximately 60 kilometres away from vishakhapatnamandhrapradesh.My name is Faiz ahmed and Mohammed Padshah was my great grand father.His Family is presently staying in kotlamadappa street,vizianagaram,.The dictionary was taken by the government in 1985 from my home..A team of government library took away the book and preserving it at hyderabad.It was 1st volume and another volume is in delhi..Thank you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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