[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [The Pali Literature of Ceylon](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928) › c19 # The Pali Literature of Ceylon c19: Bibliography The Pāli Literature of Ceylon c19 - **Language:** English ### Bibliography ### [c19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.1) ARUNĀCHALAM (Sir Ponnambalam) : \*Sketches of Ceylon History\*, Colombo, 1906. ### [c19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.2) BARUA (B. M.) : \*A History of Pre-Buddhistic Philosophy\*, Calcutta University, 1921. ### [c19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.3) BEAL (Samuel) : \*Buddhist Records of the Western World\*, 2 vols., Trübner, London, 1884. ### [c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.4) BODE (Mrs. Mabel H.) : \*The Pāli Literature of Burma\*, R.A.S., London, 1909. ### [c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.5) BURLINGAME (E. W.) : \*Buddhist Legends\*, parts 1-3, Harvard Oriental Series, 1921; \*Buddhist Parables\*, Yale University, 1922. ### [c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.6) CATALOGUES :— \*Catalogue of Pāli MSS. in the Oriental Department, British Museum.\* ” ” ” ” ” ” \*India Office Library.\* ” ” ” ” ” ” \*Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.\* See also under D'Alwis, De Zoysa, and Wickremasinghe. ### [c19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.7) CHILDERS (Robert Cæsar) : \*A Dictionary of the Pāli Language\*, Trübner, London, 1875. ### [c19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.8) COOMĀRA SWĀMY (Mutu) : \*Dāthā Vamsa\*, Trübner, London, 1874. ### [c19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.9) D'ALWIS (James) : \*Sidat-Saṅgarā\*, Colombo, 1852; \*A Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pāli, and Sinhalese Literary Works of Ceylon\*, Colombo, 1870; \*Attanagaluvamsa\*, Colombo, 1870. ### [c19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.10) DE ZOYSA (Louis) : \*A Catalogue of the Temple Libraries of Ceylon\*, Colombo, 1885. ### [c19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.11) DUTT (Sukumar) : \*Early Buddhist Monachism\*, Trübner, 1924. ### [c19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.12) FLEET (J. F.) : \*Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings\*, Calcutta, 1888. ### [c19.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.13) FORCHHAMMER (Dr. Emil) : \*Report on the Pāli Literature of Burma\*, Government of India Publication, 1879. ### [c19.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.14) FRANKE (Dr. R. Otto) : \*Pāli und Sanskrit\*, Strassburg, 1902. ### [c19.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.15) GEIGER (Wilhelm) : \*The Dīpavamsa and Mahāvamsa\* (English translation), Colombo, 1908; \*Mahā-vamsa\* (P.T.S.) and \*Cūḷa-vamsa\* (P.T.S.). ### [c19.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.16) GILES (H. A.) : \*The Travels of Fa-Hsien\*, Cambridge, 1923. ### [c19.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.17) GRAY (James) : \*Buddhaghosuppatti\*, Luzac, London, 1892; \*Jinālaṅkāra\*, Luzac, London, 1894. ### [c19.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.18) HARDY (R. Spence) : \*Eastern Monachism\*, Williams and Norgate, 1860; \*Legends and Theories of the Buddhists\*, Williams and Norgate, 1866; \*Manual of Buddhism\*, Williams and Norgate, 1880. ### [c19.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.19) HASTINGS (James) : ed. \*Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics\*, T. and C. Clark (12 vols.), 1910-18. ### [c19.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.20) \*Jātaka\* : ed. by V. FAUSBÖLL, 7 vols., Trübner, 1877-97. ### [c19.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.21) \*Jātaka Tales\* : H. FRANCIS and E. J. THOMAS, Cambridge, 1916. ### [c19.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.22) \*Jātaka Tales\* (translation) : published by Cambridge Univ. Press, 7 vols., 1895–1913. ### [c19.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.23) JOURNALS :— \*Pāli Text Society.\* \*Royal Asiatic Society\*, London. ” ” ” Ceylon Branch, Colombo. \*Bengal Asiatic Society\*, Calcutta. \*Indian Antiquary\*, Bombay. \*The Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register\*, Colombo. \*Calcutta Review\*, Calcutta. \*Journal Asiatique\*, Paris. \*Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft\*, Leipzig. ### [c19.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.24) KERN (H.) : \*Manual of Indian Buddhism\*, Strassburg, 1896. ### [c19.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.25) LAW (Bimala Caran) : \*The Life and Work of Buddhaghosa\*, Calcutta, 1923. ### [c19.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.26) LEGGE (James) : \*A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms\*, Oxford, 1886. ### [c19.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.27) MACDONELL (A. A.) : \*Sanskrit Literature\*, Heinemann, London, 1899. ### [c19.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.28) \*Mahā-vaṃsa\* : Pāli Text, ed. Sumaṅgala and Batuvantudāve, Colombo, 1905 ; \*Ṭīkā\*, ed. Sumaṅgala and Batuvantudāve, Colombo, 1895. ### [c19.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.29) MITRA (Rājendra Lāla) : \*Buddha Gayā\*, Calcutta, 1888. ### [c19.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.30) NARIMAN (G. K.) : \*Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism\*, Bombay, 1920. ### [c19.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.31) \*Nikāya-saṅgraha\* : Text, Government Printing Press, Colombo, 1907 ; translated by C. M. FERNANDO, and edited by W. F. GUṆAWARDHANA, Colombo, 1908. ### [c19.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.32) OLDENBERG (Hermann) : \*The Vinaya Piṭakam\*, 5 vols., Williams and Norgate, London, 1879–83 ; \*Dīpa-vaṃsa\*, Williams and Norgate, 1879. ### [c19.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.33) PĀLI TEXT SOCIETY : All publications, including the \*Journal\* and the \*New Pāli Dictionary\*. ### [c19.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.34) PIERIS (Paul E.) : \*Ceylon and the Portuguese\*, Ceylon, 1920. ### [c19.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.35) PRIDHAM (Charles) : \*Ceylon and its Dependencies\*, 2 vols., T. and W. Boone, London, 1849. ### [c19.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.36) \*Rāja-ratnākara\* : ed. by SIMON DE SILVA, Colombo, 1907 ; see also Upham. ### [c19.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.37) \*Rājāvaliya\* : Translated by B. GUṆASEKARA, Colombo, 1900 ; see also Upham. ### [c19.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.38) RHYS DAVIDS (Mrs. C. A. F.) : \*Buddhism\* (Home University Library), 2nd edition ; \*Buddhist Psychological Ethics\*, 2nd edition, R.A.S., London, 1923 ; \*Buddhist Psychology\*, 2nd edition, Luzac, London, 1924. ### [c19.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.39) RHYS DAVIDS (T. W.) : \*Buddhist Birth Stories\*, vol. i, Trübner, 1880, and Routledge, 1924 (revised by Mrs. Rhys Davids) ; \*Buddhist Suttas\* (Sacred Books of the East, xi), Frowde, 1881 ; \*Vinaya Texts\* (Sacred Books of the East, xiii, xvii, xx), Frowde, 1881–5 ; \*Dialogues of the Buddha\*, 3 vols., Frowde, 1900–21 ; \*Buddhism: Its History and Literature\* (American Lectures), Putnam, 1896 ; \*Buddhist India\* (Story of the Nations), Fisher Unwin, 1903. ### [c19.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.40) SENAVERATNA (John M.) : \*The Story of the Sinhalese\*, 2 vols., Colombo, 1923. ### [c19.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.41) SMITH (Vincent A.) : \*Early History of India\*, Clarendon Press, 1st and 4th editions, 1904 and 1924 ; \*Asoka\* (Rulers of India Series), 1909 ; \*Oxford History of India\* (Oxford Univ. Press), 1st and 2nd ed., 1919 and 1923. ### [c19.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19.42) TENNENT (Sir James Emerson): \*Christianity in Ceylon\*, John Murray, London, 1850; \*Ceylon\*, 2 vols., Longmans, London, 1857. TURNOUR (George): \*Epitome of the History of Ceylon\* (Ceylon Almanac), Colombo, 1823; translation of the \*Māha Wanso\*, vol. i, Cotta, Ceylon, 1837. UPHAM (Edward): \*Sacred and Historical Books of Ceylon\*, 3 vols. (\*Mahāvansī\*, \*Rāja-ratnācarī\*, and \*Rājā-valī\*), Parbury, Allen and Co. WICKREMASINGHE (D. M. de Z.): \*Sinhalese MSS. in the British Museum\*, London, 1900; \*Catalogue of the Colombo Museum\*, Government Oriental Library, Colombo, 1896; \*Sinhalese Printed Books in the British Museum\*, London. WIJESINHA (L. C.): \*Mahā Vaṃsa\* (English translation), Colombo, 1909. WINTERNITZ (Dr. M.): \*Geschichte der Indischen Litteratur\*, Zweiter Band, Leipzig, 1920. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.malalasekera-1928.c19) · Pramāṇa