Statues of Lakashminath Bezbaroa (left) and Dr Krishna Kanta Handiqui (right)
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- Feb 21, 2012 - Today I am going to share with you the first English-Assamese dictionary written by American baptist missionary MILES BRONSON collecting.
A descriptive multilingual dictionary by the people, for the people and of the people of north-east India Other Xobdo-projects. Feb 21, 2012 - Today I am going to share with you the first English-Assamese dictionary written by American baptist missionary MILES BRONSON collecting. In 1892 he published 'Porhaxaliya Abhidhaan'(School Dictionary). But his greatest work was the first Assamese-English Dictionary 'Hemkosh' which was published in 1900 after his death.
Rasaraj Lakshminath Bezbaroa(1864-1938), who is person behind the great awakening of the Assamese Society. The existence of today's Assamese language can truly be attributed to works undertaken by this great visionary and writer who instilled a sense of belongingness in the hearts of Assamese people through his satirical works. He was one of the literary stalwarts of the Jonaki Era, the age of romanticism in Assamese literature.
This statue is erected in his honour in front of the New Academic Building (top most) which also houses, among many other arts and humanities departments, the Assamese Language Department.
The statue on the right is that of Dr Krishna Kanta Handiqui(1898-1982), the great Sanskrit Scholar and the founder Vice Chancellor of Gauhati University (for nine years from 1948 to 1957). Born on 20 July 1898 in Jorhat town of Assam, to Rai-Bahadur Radha Kanta Handique, he was educated at Cotton College, Guwahati (1913–15), Sanskrit College, Calcutta (1915–17), Calcutta University (1917–19), Oxford University, Paris University, and Berlin University (1920–27). He also studied and learned many languages like Latin, Greek, French, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish. He is known to have known 13 languages: 8 European languages and 5 Indian languages including Pali and Prakrit (from Wikipedia). This statue was erected in his honour in front of the Central Library of the university, named after him as KK Handiqui Library.
From Wikipedia
Hemkosh (Assamese: হেমকোষ Hêmkûx, IPA: [hɛmkʊx]) is the first etymological dictionary of the Assamese Language based on Sanskrit spellings, compiled by Hemchandra Barua. It was first published in 1900 under the supervision of Capt. P. R. Gordon, ISC and Hemchandra Goswami, 33 years after the publication of the Bronson’s dictionary. It contained about 22,346 words. This dictionary still published by Hemkosh Printers is considered to be the Standard reference of the Assamese Language.[1]
Hemkosh is actually the second dictionary of Assamese language. The first Assamese dictionary was compiled by Dr. Miles Bronson, an American Baptist Missionary. His Dictionary, published in 1867 at American Baptist Mission Press Sibsagar, is out of print now. Bronson’s work did not pretend to be an etymological dictionary but contained a very considerable collection of words culled from the lips of the people but without derivations.[1]
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