Pali-English Dictionary, 8121504724

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Pali-English Dictionary

T.W. Rhys Davids (Author) William Stede (Author)

Synopsis

Pali Text Society is the pioneer institution which brought in print practically all the Pali canon commentaries. Rhys Davids conceived the idea of compiling an exhaustive dictionary of Pali, based on the voluminous basic material that was being brought to light. The work took more than twenty years of devoted labour, but before his death in 1922, he had the satisfaction of seeing its first volume published. In four volumes, issued over 1921-25, the dictionary contains practically every Pali word, with its Sanskrit root identified and meanings given in English. Carrying over 1,50,000 textual references, the work holds the field, even today as the best and most comprehensive Pali-English Dictionary.

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T.W. Rhys Davids

Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843 - 1922) was the foremost and most active exponent of the study of Pali and Buddhism in England. Rhys Davids studied Sanskrit at Breslau under Stenzler. In 1882 he was appointed as Professor of Pali in the University College, London. He was the founder - chairman, of the Pali Text Society (1881), through which he had published much of the basic texts and commentaries in Pali Buddhism, in about 25,000 pages. Rhys Davids played an active part in founding in 1902, the British Academy, and later of the School of Oriental Studies, London. He was also the president of the India Society from its inception in 1910 till his death in 1922.

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