Hi Lennart,

My deepest appreciations for your effort at digitializing the PED. It came just in
time for me to inform my Key to Pali Suttas class about it this weekend.

However, I notice there is no search using Pali fonts (like CSCD), which I think that
would take some effort for Acrobat, since it is a PDF file. I tried using "normal"
search but it takes some time and normally would not get those words with diacritics.

Still, the cyber-PED is a great tool for Pali students and scholars.

Sukhi.

P.

Lennart Lopin wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I have converted the online edition of the PED (PTS
> Pali English Dictionary) to a single PDF file (15MB,
> 2588 pages)...
>
> In case the online version wont be available its quite
> useful - besides if you work a lot with the CSCD and
> find its build in dictionary limited it will be very
> convenient to search for a word in that pdf file(and
> you wont need to install any font...). You will find a
> downloadable version on my internet site:
>
> http://www.nibbanam.com/dict.htm
>
> Secondly i would like to know if anyone has ever come
> across an analysis (word statistics) of the pali canon
> vocabulary and its usage. Such methods have been
> successfully made use of to verify authorship of
> medieval literature.
> In the case of the Pali Canon it could show which
> parts most probably belong to the same author and
> which parts are influenced by others (later?) authors...
>
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