dictionary of sanskrit grammar

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
Within a few years after the publication o f ‘ A Dictionary of Sanskrit
Grammar \ the book became out of print. With continuous inquiries pouring in
about its availability it was thought necessary that a second edition should be
made available to the serious students o f Sanskrit learning. Hence, a request was
sent to the Director, Oriental institute, Baroda for the issue o f a second edition.
He readily accepted the request.
Prof. K . V. Abhyankar, my revered teacher asked me to revise all the entries,
add a few more references to the existing entries and further add about three
hundred new entries. I readily accepted his suggestion. The new entries are
mostly of the nature o f semantic terms.
Before the printing of the book was taken up a tragic event took place.
Prof. Abhyankar, with Mrs. Abhyankar, their two brilliant young grand children,
and an aged servant, met with an unnatural and tragic death. Sanskrit scholars
in India and the West were shocked at this unprecedented vagary of Destiny.
Prof. Abhyankar was the most authoritative o f the grammarians active in
India. He enriched research in Vyakaranasastra by his scholarly works like
Vakyapadlya, Mahabhasyadlpika, Paribhasasamgraha and others which are
indispensable to students of grammar.
I express my deep and sincere sense of gratitude to Dr. A . N. Jani, the
present Director, Oriental Institute, Baroda, for planning the completion of
printing of this book in a record time of about ten months. But for his zest and
vigour the work would not have been completed so soon.
I am particularly thankful to Shri Siddhartha Y . Wakankar, Research
Officer of the Oriental Institute, for scrupulously correcting the proofs of this
work.
I thank the mthorities and workers o f the M. S. University Press for
expediting the pri ting of the present work.
Ahmedabad,
21-10-77 J. M . Shukla