Amara-Sinha

Amara-Sinha, a celebrated Hindu grammarian, of whose life little is known; his date is by various authorities put at 56 B.C., the 5th century A.D., and the 11th century. He was a Buddhist; and it is believed that most of his writings perished during the persecution by the orthodox Brahmins in the 4th and 5th centuries. His Amara-Kosha ('Thesaurus of Amara') is a Sanskrit vocabulary, containing in all about 10,000 words, and has been largely used by almost all the grammarians of India.