Revised edition of the Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names

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Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names - Home Page

From Bhante:

For the past year or so I have been working on getting the Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names into a modern online format that is easy and convenient to use.

The Dictionary was prepared by Dr. G.P. Malalasekera and first published in 1938. It is a supplement to the Pāli-English Dictionary, which didn’t include names.

The first thing necessary was to proofread the text. That led on to making many corrections and additions, especially of Pāli passages which were left without translation in the original.

I have also made some small vocabulary changes, and standardised the text. All of this and more is explained in detail on the page.

I have also made three PDFs and EPUBs to compliment the online work. The first is complete; the second extracts the information about the Jātakas, and the 3rd the Vaṁsa literature.

I hope this work will be useful to students everywhere and help bring the knowledge contained in this exhaustive work to all who are interested.

Bhante Anandajoti again offeres us an improved version of an essential piece of reference material. There has long been a digitized version of this (now public domain) work available on line.

On the page above he details the improvements he made.

Because the dictionary has commentarial information, a large part has been removed in the built-in SuttaCentral version.

To get a sense of the scope of the complete work, try searching for “Sariputta”, “Kisa Gotami”, or another welknown disciple.

Since the author considers sutta titles as proper names, they are included as well.

[Khemarato.bhikkhu]

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try searching

Hmm… The search box isn’t working for me

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I’d suggest that folks email Bhante Anandajoti directly to report problems. He’s not so much into forums. His email is on that page.

It works from a 6mb json file that has to get downloaded so it’s a little laggy.

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I have updated the OP to include some information from Bhante’s announcement as well as the book cover. Dr. Malalasekera is really a giant in both Pali and Sinhala language and it’s nice to be able to put a face with the name.