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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names (Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names)

Every person, place, monastery, river, text and tribe in the Pāli canon, commentaries and chronicles, with summaries and full references.

- **Language:** English
- **Author:** [G. P. Malalasekera](https://indike.org/pramana/person/malalasekera-gp)
- **Extent:** 37,139 passages, 906,283 words
- **Text:** complete digital text
- **Source:** archive.org · London: John Murray 1937–38 (Indian Texts Series), 2 vols; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite;… · In copyright (G. P. Malalasekera †1973); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to…

## Contents

- [v1 Volume 1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1) — 24 parts
- [v2 Volume 2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2) — 14 parts

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) · Pramāṇa
