Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c2.1

v1.c2.1

ONE of my abiding memories of the days in the Nineties, when work under and with Rhys Davids became an essential part of my married life, was the foreground-presence of three interleaved volumes. These were Robert H. Childers’s Pāli Dictionary (a copy bequeathed by him to my husband) and the Pāli Text Society’s *Journal* for 1888, almost monopolized by an Index of Pāli Names by the Swiss scholar Edward Müller-Hess. Daily those interleaved pages were becoming ever more filled, to say nothing of marginal additions, so keenly did Rhys Davids record as soon as it appeared the New—or shall I say, the Newly-risen from the Once-had-been.