Digital South Asia Library — Praharaj's Purnnachandra Odia Bhashakosha (1931–1940), ଅଭିମାନ entry

• Author: Gopal Chandra Praharaj (original compilation), digitized/searchable edition hosted by the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL), University of Chicago
• Publication: Purnnachandra Odia Bhashakosha, Cuttack: Utkal Sahitya Press, 1931–1940 (7 vols.) — digitized/searchable edition hosted by DSAL
• Date: 1931–1940 (original); accessed 2026-09-06
• URL: https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/app/praharaj_query.py?qs=ଅଭିମାନ&searchhws=yes&matchtype=exact (query interface at https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/praharaj/)
• Type: primary (a monolingual/bilingual Odia lexicographic dictionary, digitized and directly queried — the same DSAL project and query-URL pattern used session 52 for Marathi's Molesworth) — neutral, lexicographic
• Accessed: 2026-09-06 (raw HTML fetched directly via curl and read in full, not only summarized by WebFetch, per this project's standing fabricated-quote caution)

Extract

The dictionary's entry for ଅଭିମାନ (Abhimāna, p. 500) is structured as two separately marked sub-entries under one headword, each with its own etymological tag:

• First sub-entry, tagged ସଂ. ବି. (likely "Sanskrit noun" — ସଂସ୍କୃତ ବିଶେଷ୍ୟ, by parallel with the second tag; project inference, not confirmed against the dictionary's own abbreviations key), derived "ଅଭି + ମନ ଧାତୁ + ଭାବ. ଅ," giving twelve numbered senses: (1) "Intention to injure; insidiousness" (M.W.); (2) "Self-conceit; high opinion of one's self"; (3) "Haughtiness, arrogance"; (4) in Sāṁkhya philosophy, "Self-reference; referring all objects to self as the act of ahaṁkāra or personality" (M.W.); (5) "Love"; (6) "Affection" (M.W.); (7) "Desire" (M.W.); (8) "Name of the sixth Manwantara" (a mythological figure); (9) "Belief"; (10) "Knowledge"; (11) "Discontent"; (12) "Sensitiveness; proneness to take offence in slight matters." (Several senses are marked "M.W." — likely citing Monier-Williams's Sanskrit dictionary as their source, consistent with this project's standing difficulty consulting Monier-Williams directly; see NEXT.md Fences.)
• Second sub-entry, tagged ଦେ. ବି. (ସଂ. ମାନ) (likely "Deshaja noun [from Sanskrit māna]" — i.e. a vernacular/regionally-developed formation built on the Sanskrit root māna rather than a direct Sanskrit borrowing; same inference caveat as above), giving three senses: (1) "Conjugal sulks; silent conjugal displeasure due to jealousy; wounded love or wounded vanity"; (2) "Secret dissatisfaction"; (3) "Prestige; honour."
• An illustrative quotation follows the second sub-entry: "ମାରି ରଖି ପାରୁ ମୋହର ଅଭିମାନ" ("[I] cannot suppress/kill my abhimāna"), cited to "କୃଷ୍ଣସିଂହ. ମହାଭାରତ, ବନ" (Krishna Singha's Odia Mahabharata, Vana/forest-book section) — a literary usage instance of the word, not yet cross-checked against a published English translation of this specific Odia Mahabharata rendering (see Gaps).
• This is the first Odia primary dictionary entry this project has consulted directly for this word, and it independently confirms the split already documented for Hindi/Marathi (pride/ego/self-regard only) versus Bengali (pride plus a relational-hurt sense listed first): here, the entry's own Sanskrit-tagged senses run mostly pride/self-conceit/haughtiness (with two senses — "discontent," "sensitiveness... to slight matters" — already gesturing toward the relational sense within the "Sanskrit" block itself), while a second, separately tagged sub-entry gives the relational-hurt sense explicitly and specifically as "conjugal sulks" tied to a spousal/romantic relationship — a narrower relational frame (jealousy between spouses/lovers specifically) than Bag & Dash's (2024) broader "loved one" framing, which is not itself specific to a conjugal/romantic bond. This is a genuinely new nuance: rather than a single headword sense drifting, Praharaj's dictionary treats the two senses as etymologically distinct sub-entries under the same spelling.

Gaps

• Retrieved by direct curl fetch of the query URL's raw HTML (not merely a WebFetch summarization pass), which this project's standing fence flags as a safer method against fabricated/hallucinated content — the raw HTML was read in full and quoted verbatim above.
• The dictionary's own abbreviations key (confirming what ସଂ. and ଦେ. stand for) was not directly consulted — the "Sanskrit"/"Deshaja" reading here is a project inference from parallel structure and general Indic-lexicography convention (tatsama vs. deshaja/tadbhava categories), not confirmed against the dictionary's own front matter.
• The Krishna Singha Mahabharata quotation is a single literary instance, not cross-checked against any published English translation of that specific Odia text.
• This is one (older, 1931–1940) Odia dictionary; no modern Odia dictionary or aggregator (of the kind transliteral.org supplied for Marathi) has yet been checked to confirm this entry's senses persist in contemporary Odia lexicography.

Used in

• Abhiman