Description
Book Name : Mahankosh
Writer: Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Language: Punjabi
Writer: Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha
Language: Punjabi
Guru Shabad Ratnakar Mahan Kosh, known by its more popular name of Mahan Kosh, is a Punjabi
language encyclopaedia which was compiled by Bhai Kahn Singh Nabha over
fourteen years. It was the first Punjabi encyclopedia, it contains more than 70,000 words,
some of them has sufficient reference from Guru Granth Sahib, Dasam Granth, Gur
Pratap Suraj Granth and from other Sikh books. It is considered a
groundbreaking work in terms of its impact and its level of scholarship.
Mahan
Kosh has 64,263 entries arranged in the alphabetical order of
the Gurumukhi covering religious and historical terms in the Sikh
canon. Each entry records the etymology and different meanings of a
term "according to its usage at different places in different works"
alongside textual quotations.
When
words of Perso-Arabic or Sanskrit origin appear they are
reproduced in their original scripts to inform readers of their correct
pronunciation and connotation.