--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <pali.smith@...> wrote:

>
> Dear Jim,
>
> thanks. The SLTP has also released the following in electronic

version:

Dear Yong Peng,

The CSCD also has Ledi Sayadaw's large modern Pali grammar called the
Niruttidiipanii which is based on the Moggallaanabyaakara.na. I had a
hard copy of both texts mailed to me from Myanmar last summer.

> . Mahaaruupasiddhi [CPD class 5.1.4]

It should be noted that the Ruupasiddhi.tiikaa is included at the
back of the above in the SLTP collection.

>
> Both the CSCD and SLTP have Kaccaayanabyaakara.na readily available

to

> the public, while PTS has Dr Ole Pind and Eisel Mazard currently
> working on two editions of it.

One major problem with the readily available Pali grammatical etexts
is that they generally contain a lot of typos making them less
reliable than their originals in printed books. The latter would also
include footnotes, tables, and indexes not found in the etext
versions.

Acquiring fluency in Pali is certainly no easy task. It is said by
Patanjali in his Mahabhashya that one of the benefits of mastering
(Sanskrit) vyaakara.na is that it will make it easy to read fluently
or something to that effect. I think the same applies to learning
Pali vyaakara.na and its application to Pali passages in the
Tipitaka. I have to confess that after more than 30 years I'm still
far from having any fluency in Pali. It is only in the last few years
that I've come to realize how important it is to learn a traditional
Pali grammar in a thorough ans systematic manner.

Best wishes,
Jim