| Brief Description: | Chief Features:
All the latest and best sources of information have been utilised in its preparation, especially as regards the scientific terms.
All the words are given in Romanized spelling, so that the work may be utilised by scholars outside India for Indological studies.
Cognate and Compound words are grouped together under a headword so as to afford a greater facility for the study of the Telugu language and are printed in bold type.
Wherever possible, the derivations of words are given and similar forms in other languages are indicated. Many words given as native in Telugu Dictionaries are traced to a foreign origin.
Many quotations from the Telugu classics which seemed unnecessary have been left out and several new ones have been added. |