The present work is a milestone in the history of Sanskrit scholarship in general and of the Sanskrit lexicography in particular. This dictionary had only two predecessors. Indian kosa-s, all written in Sanskrit, were but thesauri of synonyms and antonyms, the concept of arranging words in alphabetical order being conspicuously absent. It contained several features with special reference to 'cognate Indo-European language'. The first edition of the Dictionary was published in 1872 and soon became out of print and the revised second edition contains words and derivatives culled from more than four hundred Sanskrit texts. The author, has taken the meanings given by Indian lexicographers Kosa-karas and the development of meanings have been shown in chronological order.

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