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8 years ago @drdhaval2785 forget it. I've done that research for a few years. We do not have even a full list of the books referred. None of the MSS are available to us. Even the older Mahabharata and Ramayana editions are hard to verify, what to say about the rest. Even in MW we have 12 abbreviations not yet opened, @Shalu411 made a guess and still is not sure. So I would not spend time on such hard cases - there are hundreds of easy to fix ones. Let the harder ones remain until 2030.
When Dealing with https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/CORRECTIONS/issues/140#issuecomment-154280703 and https://github.com/sanskrit-lexicon/CORRECTIONS/issues/140#issuecomment-154282786 I came across a hurdle which I never felt before.
Earlier I used my Sanskrit knowledge to differentiate right from the wrong. But these were unusual words. So I had to depend on the references. Sometimes one reference to another and another to third one.
I felt that I can not do proper justice to the work if I don't have all the books (If not the same edition, at least some other edition of the same book) which are referred to by the lexicographer.
If all of us have a resource bank where all such book links are given, we would download them on local machine and use as and when required.
To my mind the steps are Step 1 - Consolidate the Abbr lists of all dictionaries for reference books Step 2 - Find and place their links for download or online viewing. Step 3 - Once we have got most of the links, abbrv page can have another column - Download (with link to the PDF).
That way for us and for all the dict users, we would be able to provide them the book referred to.
Step 1 and Step 3 are prerogatives of @funderburkjim . Step 2 - All of us can chip in.