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Kaetan Andreevich Kossovich’s Sanskrit-Russian Dictionary – First Domestic Sanskrit Lexicon
This is the first Russian-language Sanskrit dictionary, originally published in 1854. Two-thirds of it is a reworking of H.H. Wilson’s English dictionary (1819 and 1832 editions), which itself drew on native synonymic lexicons and early volumes of the monumental Great Petersburg Sanskrit-German dictionary, known for its contextual citations.
Headwords appear in Devanagari, with word order and transliteration based on Cyrillic. The dictionary is incomplete — only a third of the planned work was published — and contains approximately 13,500 words. This fourth edition is supplemented by an "Index of 449 Verbal Roots" (XIX pages) and an "Alphabetical Index of Vocabularies" (CCCLX pages) in modern academic Latin transliteration.
Beyond its scholarly use, this oversized volume can be consulted for festive fortune-telling, song title inspiration, or appreciation of refined mid-19th-century Russian prose. It holds historiographical value and may benefit students of comparative linguistics, the history of Sanskrit lexicography, and Slavophile thought.
