Review to Rentería Alejandre, Sergio Armando, Una aproximación al léxico elemental de la lengua sánscrita. 2025. México: El Colegio de México, 548 pp.

Abstract

This review addresses the book entitled Una aproximación al léxico elemental de la lengua sánscrita, by Sergio Armando Rentería Alejandre. This book represents a significant advance in Sanskrit studies in Latin America and Spain and reflects the development of Indological studies in the Spanish-speaking world. Its main objective is to invite interested readers to explore the text and its potential for the development of Sanskrit studies in Spanish. Rentería's work, for its part, aims to approach the Sanskrit language by analyzing its basic vocabulary for reading, understanding, and translating it into Spanish. Although not a dictionary per se, Rentería's text serves as a training tool for developing comprehensive lexical competence in Sanskrit students. Therefore, this is a significant contribution that fills an important gap in the available bibliography for Sanskrit studies in the Spanish-speaking world and reaffirms El Colegio de México's leadership in the field, while consolidating Rentería's position as a leading specialist.