Piya:

Yes, Google Books has many classic Pali texts and grammars, most of
them (I would think) of purely curiosity value for the modern student.

Warder's is in there too, but only in partial form ("Snippet View").
This may be because it is still in print.

I have tried the CPD that you reference in your message, and prefer it
over the PED, as the former is simpler for a newbie like myself to
wade through. Yet there are many words that are not (yet) listed in
the CPD, so it seems incomplete, at best.

Please correct me, though, if I am mistaken.

With metta,
Peter

2009/1/24 Piya Tan <dharmafarer@...>:

> John & Jim,
>
> I checked the website out, it has many old Buddhist classics, incl Warder's
> Introduction to Pali, and a few JPTS Journals etc. Most of them are for
> partial reference.
>
> Anyway, here is an excellent full view Critical Pali Dictionary which I
> often refer to:
>
> CPD http://pali.hum.ku.dk/cpd/
>
> I'm waiting for an online verison of the Encyclopaedia of Buddhism (Sri
> Lanka), and excellent work but underutilized diue to lack of availability.
>
> With metta,
>
> Piya
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Jim Anderson
> <jimanderson.on@...>wrote:
>
>> Dear John,
>>
>> I downloaded a complete copy in PDF format from books.google.com. It is
>> about 32 MB in size and takes about 2 hours to download on a 56k modem.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> > Dear Pali friends,
>> >
>> > Did I imagine it, or was there a post some time in the last month or
>> > so where someone pointed out a website where one could download
>> > Childers Dictionary of Pali as a desktop lookup program? If so, could
>> > you please re-post the address? If not, is it available as an online
>> > lookup somewhere?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > With metta,
>> > John
>>
>>
>>
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