Meaningful Words - Caraka

Abbreviations are the key to obtain more meaning from meanings in MW Dictionary Lexicographers such as Sir Monier Williams have meticulously compiled and classified words. They used abbreviations for 1 List of authors and works 2. Abbreviation - Grammar 3. Abbreviation- Other languages 4. Abbreviation - Using the dictionary - positional reference 5. Abbreviation - Subject Matter alg. = algebra. anat.=anatomy arithm. = arithmetic astron = astronomy. geom = geometry math = mathematics medic = medicine This can be used to have a sub set of the MW Dictionary for a particular author or work. For example, you are studying Caraka Samhita. It will be worthwhile to have the Dictionary filtered only for entries that have been referenced by Sir Monier Williams et al. These words used by Caraka are significant and may be unique to Caraka, the subject matter of his life, times, language and work in the field of medicine and healing. This subset of words may also include reference to their usage for perhaps similar concepts in the Veda or by another author giving leads for future research. In order to have such a filtering possible, I have organized the entire MW dictionary (1) in spreadsheets for sorting and filtering on a variety of parameters. And even enabling statistical analysis and charts. (2) In plain text formats and use of good note pad software such as Notepad++ © from http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ This file is an example of words of Caraka and a quick analysis of its usage by others