Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c4.3

v1.c4.3

There followed the usual inevitable delays, and it was not till July, 1931, that the India Office, in consultation with the Government of India, accepted Mrs. Rhys Davids’ recommendation and asked me to undertake the work. Meanwhile Mrs. Rhys Davids had, with remarkable but characteristic generosity, sent me, of her own accord, her husband’s copy of the P.T.S. Journal for 1888, containing Edward Müller’s “Index of Pāli Proper Names,” interleaved with numerous additional references entered by Rhys Davids himself. I was, however, at the time deeply engrossed with my critical edition of the Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā (since published by the P.T.S.) for the Ceylon Government, and was therefore not able to devote much attention to the Names Dictionary till 1933.