and a sixth on page 398. It would be a useful exercise to find them. Be warned that this numbering system is not perfect: for example, y^ll is indicated as a verb in the first column of page 659, and as a noun in the second column, but these are not numbered. Again, in the third column of page 401 are two entries for hCI , but neither of refer to cet in 397c, which in turn does not refer to the other two. Although there are these inconsistencies, there are fortunately very few of them. 14.4 Misleading Words Because of the etymological foundation of the dictionary and its four levels of alphabetical order, some words may not be straightforward to find. We shall examine three such words here. Astaiiga — Turn to page 116: according to the heading words we should find astaiiga here. If we look down the second column there are three entries for asta, and in the next column asta, but there is no astaiiga, not even at the third level of samasa. However, for reasons best known to himself, Monier- Williams has here decided to have a separate entry word for samasa where the adjoining word starts with 'a': astaiiga is on the third line of the first column of page 117. Vicara — Turn to page 950: again, according to the heading words we should find vicara in the middle of the second column. All the samasa listed on this page are derived from Th on the previous page. The trick here is to escape out of the current level of alphabetical order to the next higher level: searching backward for the entry word under which these samasa are listed, we come to Th on the previous page. This is the outermost (devanagarl) level — now remain at that level and search for vicara. The next devanagarl entry is In 31 on 953b, and the page ends with N^rt : continue forward at the devanagarl level, looking for Ih^K. This will be found near the bottom of 958c where it simply refers to vi-^/car, and thus the entry word is found near the bottom of 958b. Sattva — This will be found listed as "HT^ in 1138b, where it gives a cross-reference to page 1135 column 2: and indeed there it is listed as Sat-tva. However, if the word had not been found on page 1138, you would not have found it on this page, not according to the heading words which indicate that it is on the previous page. It is in fact listed at the third level in 1134c where it simply gives 'see below' — this means scan forward over entry words (at level-1 or -2) for the entry. These examples illustrate that the page heading words are a useful guide to get within ten pages or so of the target word, but that they can also mislead. This
