Dear Everett Thiele

Thanks very much for the information. I'll see how I will proceed.
Did not occur to me to try Sanskrit sites. Sinhalese did occur to me
too, but that sort of over loaded my brain and that was when I
decided to "cry for help". But Sinhalese is definitely on the list
for "next language".

Recently I have developed a terrible passion for languages. I know.
passion is strictly a no-no in the Dhamma. Might end up getting
attached to the languages and forget about Nibbhana.

I will definitely get myself a filter

As for the CD, pity there is no Vipassana Research Institute listed
in Malaysia, not even in Singapore. I will have to order from
another country.


Thanks very, very much.

Sukhdev Singh

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, rett <rett@...> wrote:
> Dear Sukhdev,
>
> >
> >Actually, I was searching for sites to learn Devanagari for Pali,
but
> >was not succesful (maybe, not succesful as yet). So I have settled
> >for these.
>
> Devanagari for Pali uses fewer characters than for both Sanskrit
and
> Hindi, so if you learn it for either of those sound systems, you'll
> already know more than you need for Pali (except for the Vedic
> cerebral .l) I'd recommend using Sanskrit sites to get started
since
> the representation of short 'a' sounds functions just like in Pali.
> Hindi has special rules for short 'a' that you won't need.
>
> There are many printed resources in India for Pali using
Devanagari,
> among others the Nava Nalanda edition of the Canon and
Commentaries.
> So it's certainly worth learning.
>
> What would be helpful for you is a filter that allows you to
convert
> a romanized Pali text to a Devanagari version of the same text. I'm
> almost certain that such tools exist, if nowhere else than in the
> LaTeX community. Perhaps one of our more computer-savvy members can
> expand on this.
>
> An alternative would be to learn the Sinhalese script. I haven't
> checked thoroughly, but I believe you'll currently find more Pali
on
> the net in Sinhalese characters than in Devanagari.
>
> If you use a PC, the Chattha Sangayana 6th council CD-rom will
allow
> you to view the texts in several different scripts.
>
> http://www.vri.dhamma.org/publications/cdorder.html
>
> Fromt that link:
>
> >The CD-ROM-Version 3 contains 217 volumes of Pali Tipitaka, its
> >Atthakathas, Tikas, Anutikas and other Pali texts. The text is in
> >Pali and can be viewed in the following seven scripts :
> >
> >1. Devanagari
> >2. Roman
> >3. Myanmar
> >4. Thai
> >5. Sri Lankan
> >6. Cambodian
> >7. Mongolian
>
> This would be my first choice if I had a PC, instead of a Mac.
There
> is also a revised and heavily corrected version of this in the
> process of being published in Thailand. I don't know if the latter
> will be released in an e-edition, however. The leadership of that
> project seems more concerned with producing luxury printed editions
> suitable for prostrating to and little else, than with making the
> canon widely available to practitioners and students who wish to
> actually read it.
>
>
> best regards,
>
> /Everett Thiele