Dear Jim,

thank you for your advice and information. Many of us would be glad if
you can restart Kaccaayanabyaakara.na in the Pali Study group. As this
group matures, we may also consider group discussion of these texts.

Mastering a language takes time, probably a lifetime, especially when
it is to ancient religious literature. So, I can understand your
'plight'. In fact, with all the exercises we have gone through, I hope
we can slowly develop a systematic approach to the learning of Pali.

With a bit of further research, I have compiled the information in
this discussions on a webpage: http://www.tipitaka.net/pali/texts.htm

As we have more information, I will expand the page's contents.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Jim Anderson wrote:

The CSCD also has Ledi Sayadaw's large modern Pali grammar called the
Niruttidiipanii which is based on the Moggallaanabyaakara.na.

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.