The Tatsama words as such or their modified forms according to the genre of each language have been given with their major shades of meaning. Rest of the 13 columns represent parallel word-forms of Sanskrit words being used in the languages specified the eight schedule of the constitution of India, namely Assamese, Oriya, Urdu, Kannada, Kashmiri, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bangla, Marathi, Malayalam and Sindhi respectively. The first column contains Sanskrit (Tatsam) words as basic entries. 'Tatsama Shabda Kosh' contains approximately 1600 entries which are being used in Hindi and other Indian languages as 'Tatsama' words.

Keeping in view, this objective, the dictionary entitled 'Tatsama Shabda Kosh' was prepared. In the light of this fact, it was decided that a dictionary was to be prepared which helps us to recognize root of the words of these languages. Sanskrit is the source Language for the vocabulary of most of the Indian Languages. Currently this dictionary is being revised including 22 languages (including Dogri, Bodo, Maithili, Santhali) approved by the constitution. Now this Dictionary has been revised and it also includes equivalents of four other Indian languages namely Sanskrit, Konkani, Nepali and Manipuri. Thereafter, in next 13 columns, the synonyms have been given in the following Indian Languages specified in the 8th schedule of the constitution of India namely, Punjabi, Urdu, Kashmiri, Sindhi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bangla, Assamese, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada respectively in Devanagari script.

Various shades of meaning of the main entry. The format of this dictionary is as follows: 1. Our endeavor has been to avoid duplicacy as far as possible. First part consists of classified words, (in thesaurus style) whereas, the general words in alphabetical order have been given in the second part. This Dictionary is in two parts and contains approximately 5000 entries. This dictionary of Indian Languages has been published to familiarize the learned citizens of our country with the rich and common heritage of vocabulary of Indian languages.

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