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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.288

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c29.288

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### [v2.c29.288](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.288)

\*\*Bālāvatarā.\*\*—A Pāli grammar in seven chapters, by Dhammakitti (or Vācissara), written in the fourteenth century. It is based on the Kaccāyana and forms an extremely good summary of Pāli grammar. There are to be found several Sinhalese paraphrases of the work and two ṭīkās in Pāli.¹

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