Some dhatu entries give much less information, such as qPT near the top of the first column, whilst others give more information, such as y/<£ l.kr at the end of page 300, but the overall format is similar. 14.3 Numbered Entries Words having the same spelling may have quite different etymologies; having different derivations, their meanings will be quite different: in such cases, where entries have the same spelling, Monier- Williams numbers these 1,2,3, and so on. For example, turning to the second column on page 32, find the two consecutive entries for 3mNcI — 3iHl Md 1. anu-cita, mfn. (/l. ci), set or placed along or . . . 3iHl Md 2. an-ucita, mfn. improper, wrong, unusual strange . . . Note the numerals and the different derivations indicated in the transliterated forms. The first is derived from i/l. ci, which in turn indicates that there is more than one dhatu ci (in fact there are three); the second is derived from i/ uc > which is found by looking up ucita on page 172c. Further down the column are two entries for anucchindat which have different derivations from the same dhatu. Note that the numerals appear before the transliterated form, both here and in 3mNcI above. Also note that these words do not have consecutive entries: indeed they may be separated by several pages, as we shall see shortly. In the next column, observe that there are two entries for 34 H ^1 1 , which both have SO the same etymological derivation, but the first is a verb and the second a noun. Turning to page 662, find the entry for pratipana in the middle of the second column, where it is given as — 1. -pana m. (for 2. see s.v.) — now find the meaning of 's.v.' in the list of abbreviations on page xxxv (two pages before page 1). The entry for pratipana that we are now examining is at the third level of alphabetical order, and we now need to find it at the outermost (devanagarl) alphabetical order: this is at the bottom of the second column on page 667. Here Monier- Williams gives a clear reference to where we have just come from: where the numbered entries are widely spaced (five pages in this case), he usually, but not always, gives pointers to where the other entry may be found. Be aware that the numbered entries inform you that there are at least two entries with the same spelling: for example, there are five entries for cit on pages 394-5,
