Guest guest Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 [Text 456564 from CIS] Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! I have some questions about Amarakosa dictionary - what is this book, is it authoritative for us, and did Srila Prabhupada use this book while translating Bhagavatam or other scriptures? I heard that this book gives definitions to different sanskrit terms, but it is not a part of Vedic scriptures. Is it true? Could somebody kindly give some explanation for this question? Your humble servant bh. Konstantin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Amarakosa is a standard Sanskrit dictionary/synonym book. Srila Prabhupada would have used it when checking meanings of words for Bhagavatam, etc., and maybe to thesaurise words. In terms of it being "authoritative" for us, or not, that's a question there's no point in answering. It's a dictionary...so there's no concept of authoritative or not. The work is part of the "Vedic" (although non-spiritual) canon, however, and in that respect you might consider it "valid". It is as much scripture, however, as a sastra on charioteering or dance - an antique mundane book (of great use, however!). Ys., Rama Kesava dasa On Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 05:36 pm, CIS: Kiev wrote: > [Text 456564 from CIS] > > Dear devotees, > Please accept my humble obeisances. > All glories to Srila Prabhupada! > > I have some questions about Amarakosa dictionary - what is this book, > is it > authoritative for us, and did Srila Prabhupada use this book while > translating Bhagavatam or other scriptures? I heard that this book > gives > definitions to different sanskrit terms, but it is not a part of Vedic > scriptures. Is it true? Could somebody kindly give some explanation > for this > question? > > Your humble servant > bh. Konstantin. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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