The standard Sanskrit lexica remain monumental and indispensable, but their citation practice has a gap: attestations are given as abbreviated references to editions, with no links to the digitized texts that are now widely available. This makes it difficult for researchers to verify or explore the original contexts of a word's usage.
MITRA-lexicon directly addresses this problem. According to its abstract, the new lexicon offers attested translations from Sanskrit into English, Tibetan, and Chinese, and it ties those attestations to the digitized sources. By doing so, it aims to bridge the gap between traditional philological reference works and the modern digital text corpus.
The abstract does not provide further details on the scope or methodology, but the stated purpose is clear: to make Sanskrit attestations more accessible and verifiable. This could be a useful step for scholars working across Sanskrit, English, Tibetan, and Chinese textual traditions.