using Sutta Central means for me mainly to search for a sutta´s root text and to get to know where to find it (MN, AN…). The result one gets when typing the name of a sutta in the searching field though, even when choosing “Root Texts” in the sidebar, is everything else except the sutta itself. Please let me know how to proceed. Thanks a lot.
Hi Danny,
I tried searching with only the sutta´s name (Anattalakkhaṇa), it didn´t work. In this case I did not know the sutta´s id and had therefore find it out through Google.
Anne
I like to suggest that the finding of a sutta in the search box by its name and by its id is made very easy. Here the site needs some re-engineering. Today I plotted AN 10.61, an id, in the search box. The result is 104 texts that contain “an”, not at all related to AN 10.61.
Perfect would be, when plotting the id, the Pali name with and without hyphen between name and the term “sutta” would show in sequence:
Hello! Can you help me with the alike issue to? I read an article and there were suttas mentions there and the thing is I can’t find these suttas anywhere. Whatever I tried it couldn’t help. Suttas numbers are:
“A.V, 333”, “M.I, 491-92”, “Dhp.142” Please, if they really exist it will literally change my life.
The problem is that there are different numbering systems for Suttas. The numbers you mention seem to belong to a rather old system that refers to volume and page numbers of a particular printed edition, namely the PTS (Pali Text Society) edition. In the time of internet this seems a bit outdated, but especially among scholars it is still widely in use.
Fortunately there are people who have built some tools to address this. One of them is for example this PTS converter.
If I enter for example “A.V, 333”, I get AN 11.12. It even links to the Sutta in root language and translations on SuttaCentral! (This is the first time I use this converter, and I am impressed!)