Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c25: Front matter
Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c25
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Front matter
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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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THE PĀLI LITERATURE OF CEYLON (R.A.S. Prize Publication Series.) Royal 8vo. London, 1928.
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THE MAHAVAMSA ṬĪKĀ Edited for the Government of Ceylon. (Published by the Pāli Text Society.) London, 1936.
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THE "EXTENDED MAHĀVAMSA" (R.A.S. Ceylon Branch.) Aluvihāra Series. Calcutta, 1937.
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INDIAN TEXTS SERIES
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DICTIONARY
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OF PĀLI PROPER NAMES
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BY G. P. MALALASEKERA, M.A., PH.D.(LOND.) HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDO-ARYAN STUDIES AT THE CEYLON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
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VOL. II. N — H
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LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1 PUBLISHED FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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TO
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MY TEACHER AND FAR MORE THAN TEACHER
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CAROLINE A. F. RHYS DAVIDS
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IN REVERENT AFFECTION AND INTENSE GRATITUDE
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“*Paṭipādesi me maggaṃ tava ñāṇena, cakkhumā.*”
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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 Pali Dictionary (a copy bequeathed by him to my husband) and the Pali Text Society's Journal for 1888, almost monopolized by an Index of Pali 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.
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Even then the question of loyal collaborators in the new Dictionary and that of raising funds to print it were exercising energy and patience. The Names Dictionary, as less yet otherwise important, he consigned to a list of desirable publications worthy to be included in the programme of the Indian Texts Series, a subvention which he had persuaded Lord Curzon, at a Calcutta interview, to make. In that list, to give prior place to the works of other men, he gave it a place so low down that its publication could not come within his lifetime. Others would garner and arrange what he had reaped.
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I did not find the assigning of this an easy task. For a scholar in the best sense the work was not creative enough. For the analytical scholar its range was too scattered in space and time. And the scholar is a hopeful animal who will accept work he has neither time nor serious intention to take up without delay. Meanwhile I had to nurse impatience and wait.
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Then a keen and gifted student, once my pupil, consented to fill the breach. With Dr. Malalasekera, to undertake is to will to begin work there and then. And now, working as men-of-will work, in the leisure intervals of an educational appointment, with yet another large task on his shoulders—the Mahāvamsa-Ṭīkā, published in 1935—unbaffled by a temporary breakdown through over-work, he has come as editor of the Names Dictionary to see land ahead.
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He has naturally not rested content with the materials collected by Rhys Davids. That collecting came to an end with the end of an earth-
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life in 1922. Since that date the Pali Text Society has published 28 volumes of first editions of texts, and some 14 annotated translations. And this is to say nothing of other contributions made elsewhere, referring to names associated with Buddhist history. Nor is there yet an end to all that. For yet a few years the collecting of addenda will be necessary. None the less the hour for the book's appearance is come, and I am happy to have been yet here to say so.
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C. A. F. RHYS DAVIDS.
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P.T.S. means published by the Pāli Text Society. SHB. means published in the Simon Hewavitarne Bequest Series (Colombo). A.=Aṅguttara Nikāya, 5 vols. (P.T.S.). AA.=Manorathapūraṇī, Aṅguttara Commentary, 2 vols. (S.H.B.). AbhS.=Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha (P.T.S. Journal, 1884). Anāgat.=Anāgatavaṃsa (P.T.S. Journal, 1886). Ap.=Apadāna, 2 vols. (P.T.S.). ApA.=Apadāna Commentary (S.H.B.). AvŚ.=Avadāna Śataka, ed. Speyer (Bibl. Buddhica). Barua: History of Pre-Buddhist Indian Philosophy (Calcutta). Beal: Romantic Legend of the Buddha (Kegan Paul). Beal: Buddhist Records of the Western World (Kegan Paul). Bode: The Pāli Literature of Burma (R.A.S.). Brethren=Psalms of the Brethren, by Mrs. Rhys Davids (P.T.S.). Bu.=Buddhavaṃsa (P.T.S.). BuA.=Buddhavaṃsa Commentary (S.H.B.). CAGI.=Cunningham's Anct. Geography of India, ed. Majumdar (Calcutta). CNid.=Culla-Niddesa (P.T.S.). Codrington: Short History of Ceylon. Compendium=Compendium of Philosophy (P.T.S.). Cv.=Cūlavaṃsa, ed. Geiger, 2 vols. (P.T.S.). Cv. Trs.=Cūlavaṃsa, translated by Geiger, 2 vols. (P.T.S.). Cyp.=Cariyāpiṭaka (P.T.S.). CypA.=Cariyāpiṭaka Commentary (S.H.B.). D.=Dīgha Nikāya, 3 vols. (P.T.S.). DA.=Sumaṅgala Vilāsinī, 3 vols. (P.T.S.). Dāṭh=Dāṭhāvaṃsa (P.T.S. Journal, 1884). DhA.=Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā, 5 vols. (P.T.S.). DhS.=Dhammasaṅgaṇi (P.T.S.). DhSA.=Atthasālinī (P.T.S.). Dial.=Dialogues of the Buddha, 3 vols. (Oxford). Dpv.=Dīpavaṃsa, ed. Oldenberg (Williams and Norgate). Dvy.=Divyāvadāna, ed. Cowell and Neill (Cambridge). Ep. Zey.=Epigraphia Zeylanica (Oxford). ERE.=Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.
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Giles: Travels of Fa Hsien (Cambridge). GS.=Gradual Sayings, 5 vols. (P.T.S.). Gv.=Gandhavamsa (P.T.S. Journal, 1886). I.H.Q.=Indian Historical Quarterly (Calcutta). Ind. Ant.=Indian Antiquary. Itv.=Itivuttaka (P.T.S.). ItvA.=Itivuttaka Commentary (P.T.S.). J.=Jātaka, ed. Fausböll, 5 vols. JA.=Journal Asiatique. J.P.T.S.=Journal of the Pāli Text Society. J.R.A.S.=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. KhpA.=Khuddakapāṭha Commentary (P.T.S.). KS.=Kindred Sayings, 5 vols. (P.T.S.). Knv.=Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī (S.H.B.). Kvu.=Kathāvatthu (P.T.S.). Lal.=Lalita Vistara, ed. S. Lefmann. Law: Kṣatriya Clans in Buddhist India. Law: Geography of Early Buddhism. M.=Majjhima Nikāya, 3 vols. (P.T.S.). MA.=Papañca Sūdanī, Majjhima Commentary, 2 vols. (Aluvihāra Series, Colombo). Mbv.=Mahābodhivamsa (P.T.S.). Mhv.=Mahāvamsa, ed. Geiger (P.T.S.). Mhv. Trs.=Mahāvamsa Translation, by Geiger (P.T.S.). Mil.=Milindapañha, ed. Treckner (Williams and Norgate). MNid.=Mahā Niddesa, 2 vols. (P.T.S.). MNidA.=Mahā Niddesa Commentary (S.H.B.). MT.=Mahāvamsa Ṭīkā (P.T.S.). Mtu.=Mahāvastu, ed. Senart, 3 vols. Netti.=Nettippakaraṇa (P.T.S.). NidA. See MNidA. NPD.=P.T.S. Pali-English Dictionary. PHAI.=Political History of Anct. India, by Chavdhuri, 2nd ed. (Calcutta). P.L.C.=The Pali Literature of Ceylon, by Malalasekera (R.A.S.). PS.=Paṭisambhidāmagga, 2 vols. (P.T.S.). PSA.=Paṭisambhidāmagga Commentary (S.H.B.). Pug.=Puggalapaññatti (P.T.S.). Pv.=Petavatthu (P.T.S.). PvA.=Petavatthu Commentary (P.T.S.). Ras.=Rasavāhinī, 2 vols. (Colombo). Rockhill: Life of the Buddha (Kegan Paul). S.=Saṃyutta Nikāya, 5 vols. (P.T.S.).
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SA.=Sāratthappakāsinī, Saṃyutta Commentary. SadS.=Saddhammasaṅgha (P.T.S. Journal, 1890). Sās.=Sāsanavaṃsa (P.T.S.). Sisters=Psalms of the Sisters, by Mrs. Rhys Davids (P.T.S.). Sp.=Samantapāsādikā, 4 vols. (P.T.S.). SN.=Sutta Nipāta (P.T.S.). SNA.=Sutta Nipāta Commentary, 2 vols. (P.T.S.) Svd.=Sāsanavaṃsadīpa, by Vimalasāra Thera (Colombo, 1929). Thag.=Theragāthā (P.T.S.). ThagA.=Theragāthā Commentary, 2 vols. (S.H.B.). Thig.=Therīgāthā (P.T.S.). ThigA.=Therīgāthā Commentary (P.T.S.). Thomas: The Life of Buddha (Kegan Paul). Ud.=Udāna (P.T.S.). UdA.=Udāna Commentary (P.T.S.). VibhA.=Sammoha-Vinodanī, Vibhaṅga Commentary (P.T.S.). Vin.=Vinaya Piṭaka, 5 vols, ed. Oldenberg (Williams and Norgate). Vsm.=Visuddhimagga, 2 vols. (P.T.S.). VT.=Vinaya Texts, trs. by Rhys Davids and Oldenberg, 3 vols. (Sacred Books of the East). Vv.=Vimānavatthu (P.T.S.). VvA.=Vimānavatthu Commentary (P.T.S.). ZDMG.=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft.