Pāli Dictionaries
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References for looking up the meaning of Pāli terms.
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A cross-platform application for looking up Pāli terms with unparalleled support for declensions, conjugations, and compound words including full declension charts, examples from the Pāli Canon, a grammar helper, and more.
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… although the CPD remains a fragment, this fragment is rounded off in a way by the fact that it does not end with an arbitrary cut. For the end within the letter “kā” coincides with that of the derivatives of the verb karoti
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Although the early dictionaries, like Pali Text Society’s Pali-English Dictionary and A Critical Pāli Dictionary, did utilize the Jātaka word definitions considerably, up and till now no one has translated the word commentaries into English in full. It is this gap that the present work seeks to fill with a new translation of the 500 verses of the first three books, together with their explanations, which takes us up to Jātaka 300.
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… most of the [plants’] names and their etymologies prove to be quite meaningful
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A few words about the PTS’s new Dictionary of Pāli and this business of writing dictionaries.
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A survey of the parallels and commentaries on this verse and a discussion on the approximate length of the “Yojana”
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As far as the Pāli literature is concerned, the earliest extant lexicon we possess is the Abhidhānappadīpikā composed by Moggallāna Thera in the reign of King Parākramabāhu the Great in the twelfth century A.D. in Sri Lanka.
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