first edition
2005 · Varanasi
by Negi, J. S.
Varanasi: Central Insitute of Higher Tibetan Studies, 2005. First edition, large 8vo, 16 vols., text in double column, publisher's green cloth, green dust jackets; some scuffing and edgewear to jackets, else fine. A twenty-year project, containing about 40,000 Tibetan terms and more than 150,000 Sanskrit synonyms, sourced from 86 texts, eleven dictionaries, and ten kosas. The primary goal of the Dictionary was to provide a resource for scholars who were working to reconstruct original Sanskrit texts from the extant Tibetan translations.
(Inventory #: 68681)