Digital Sanskrit Dictionary

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Digital Sanskrit Dictionary

 

 

Sanskrit is one of the oldest known languages with a rich collection of documents full of timeless spiritual knowledge. Here you’ll find some links and the latest news about the mwsdd dictionary program.

 

 

 

Mwsdd is a interface to the cologne(university of köln) digital Sanskrit project, wich is a digitized form of the Monier Williams dictionary. It’s a windows program wich you can locally install on your PC alongside with the huge 16MB dictionary file created by the university of köln wich contains about 160.000 entries.

 

 

 

1. Create a folder on your PC: C:\Sanskrit_Dict

2. Go to http://members.chello.nl/l.bontes/sans_n.htm

3. Download the 5 files (skip the mwsdd_v14c.zip) into the folder created in step 1

4. Install the fonts.zip. Use Control Panel > Fonts > File > Install New Font

5. Unzip dict.zip and mwsdd_v15beta.zip into the same directory

6. Double click on mwsdd.exe in the folder created in step 1 to run the dictionary.