Hemkosh Assamese Dictionary Pdf Download
Statues of Lakashminath Bezbaroa (left) and Dr Krishna Kanta Handiqui (right)
He is famously known for his monumental work Hemkosh, an Assamese-English dictionary. Besides several books related to grammar and for school-children, he translated a book named Way to Health into Assamese as Swasthya Rakshya ba Ga Bhale Rakhibor Upai (1886). Like Hemchandra Barua, Gunabhiram Barua too started writing in Orunodoi. English-Assamese, Bengali and Hindi is an example of multilingual dictionary.According to Al-Rabi'i, the E-Dictionary can be divided into two different types 5 as follows:1. Online E-Dictionary: This dictionary is directly used in digital form through Internet using web browsers from anywhere place in the world.
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.