THE NIGHAIVTUAND
THE OLDEST INDIAN TREATISE
ON ETYMOLOGY, PHILOLOGY, AND SEMENTICSCRITICALLY
EDITED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS AND TRANSLATED FOR THE FIRST
TIME INTO ENGLISH, WITH INTRODUCTION, EXEGETICAL AND CRITICAL
NOTES, THREE INDEXES AND EIGHT APPENDICES
BY
LAKSHMAN SARUP,
M.A.
(PANJ.), D. PHIL. (OxoN.)
LATE PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PANJAB,
LAHORE
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INTRODUCTION, ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND NOTES(
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THE NIQHANTUAND
THE NIRUKTATHE OLDEST INDIAN TREATISE ON ETYMOLOGY, PHILOLOGY,
AND SEMANTICSCRITICALLY EDITED .FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS AND
TRANSLATED FOR THE FIRST TIME INTO ENGLISH, WITHINTRODUCTION,
EXEGETICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES,
THREE INDEXES AND EIGHT APPENDICES
BY
LAKSHMAN SARUP,
M.
A, (PANJ,), D. PHIL. (OxoN.)
(Of Balliol College Oxford)
PROFESSOR of SANSKRIT, ORIENTAL COLLEGE, LAHORE
SANSKRIT TEXT, WITH AN APPENDIX SHOWING THE
RELATION OF THE NlRUKTA WITH OTHERSANSKRIT WORKS.
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PREFACE.a systematic and exhaustive search for the hitherto
unutilised mss. of the Nirukta was made. I myself undertook an
extensive tour in Rajputana, Baroda, Tihri-Garhwal and Cashmere and
examined the state collections of Sanskrit mss. I also visited
Benares, Patna, Madras, Madura, and I wrote to scholars, and
librarians in charge of Sanskrit Tanjore. mss. throughout the
country. I was therefore able to secure thereturnto India,
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home
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This ms. belongs to the state Library, Bikaner. The Bk. loan was
secured for the University of the Panjab through the courtesy of
Maharaja S'ri Sir Bhairon Singhji, K. C. I. E., VicePresident,
Council, Bikaner.
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