- Amara Sinha
Amara Sinha (c. AD 375) was a
Sanskrit grammar ian andpoet , of whose personal history hardly anything is known.He is said to have been "one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of
Vikramaditya ," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is theChandragupta Vikramaditya (Chandragupta II ) that flourished about AD 375.Amara seems to have been a
Buddhist ; and an early tradition asserts that his works, with one exception, were destroyed during the persecution carried on by the orthodoxBrahmin s in the 5th century. The exception is the celebrated "Amara-Kosha" ("Treasury of Amara"), a vocabulary of Sanskrit roots, in three books, and hence sometimes called "Trikanda" or the "Tripartite."It 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
Rome in Tamil character in 1798. An edition of the entire work, with English notes and an index by HT Colebrooke, appeared atSerampore in 1808. The Sanskrit text was printed atCalcutta in 1831. A French translation by ALA Loiseleur-Deslongchamps as published at Paris in 1839.References
*1911
External links
* [http://sanskrit.gde.to/doc_z_misc_amarakosha.html Amarakosha Sanskrit text]
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