A Dictionary of Pali [3 volume set]

Margaret Cone (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0860135330 / ISBN 13: 9780860135333

Published by Bristol : The Pali Text Society, 2001-20, 2020

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3 volume set. xxiv, 778 p. ; 30 cm. x, 653 pages ; 31 cm. viii + 683 pages : 31 cm.

Seller Inventory # PTS2002

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Dictionary of Pali [3 volume set]
• Publisher: Bristol : The Pali Text Society, 2001-20
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860135330
• ISBN 13: 9780860135333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Buddhism
  • Language
  • Pali

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Synopsis

As of 2020, three of the four volumes have been published: Part I (A-Kh), Part II (G-N), and Part III (P-Bh). The first volume of Cone's dictionary covered the letters a-kh. Part Two thus represents the first substantial advance in Pali lexicography since the early 1920's, when the relevant portion of T.W.Rhys Davids and W.Stede's Pali-English Dictionary was first published. The third volume of Cone's dictionary covered the letters p-bh. This impressive new dictionary has several improvements over the classic Pali Text Society Pali Dictionary, including the use of Pali quotations from the Canon to illustrate the meaning of words, instead of simply references to those passages. This dictionary has two main aims: first, to help its user read and understand the Pali Canon and its commentaries; and second, to provide a picture of the language, syntax, and even grammar of these texts. As of 2020, three of the four volumes have been published: Part I (A-Kh), Part II (G-N), and Part III (P-Bh). The last parts of this dictionary is currently being prepared (but may be a very long time before publication) and the Dictionary is likely to remain the principle lexical resource for scholars working with Pali texts for some generations to come.