Amarasimha
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Amarasimha (
Amara-Kosha (IAST: Amarakośa) (Treasury of Amara). The first reliable mention of the Amarakosha is in the Amoghavritti of Shakatayana composed during the reign of Amoghavarsha (814-867 CE)[4]
The Amarakosha is a lexicon of Sanskrit words in three books, and hence is sometimes called the Trikāṇḍī or the "Tripartite".[1] It is also known as "Namalinganushasana".[5] The Amarakosha contains 10,000 words, and is arranged, like other works of its class, in metre, to aid the memory.
The first chapter of the Kosha was printed at
B. L. Rice compiled the text in Kannada script with meanings in English and Kannada in 1927.[6]
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm 1911.
- ^ B. L. Rice, edited by N. Balasubramanya, 1970, page X
- Chambers's Encyclopædia. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 311.
- ISBN 9788120804173.
- ISBN 9788125014539. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ISBN 9788120602601.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Amara Sinha". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 781.
