DPD online: CST Commentary Definitions Search

The DPD (Digital Pali Dictionary) online now has a feature to search in the definitions specifically that are found in the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka (CST) commentary.

For those not familiar, a large part of the commentaries is more or less a dictionary of terms found in the text they are commenting on.

There is a teeny tiny tab at the top left corner of the screen:

Then you can search for term definitions as found in the commentary, e.g.:

One thing that wasn’t apparent to me at first is that there are some tips at the bottom of the screen based on what you mouse over:

The detailed documenation is here:

https://digitalpalidictionary.github.io/dpdict_bd.html

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