Re: to Sukin: book suggestions

hi,
I don't think any thai,burmese and srilankan need to
read any more pali grammar book in English because
they really have enough text tran or modern teachers
book to learn pali.I can get rare tika of sinhala tran
plus text for pali grammar book like buddhiipasadani
with some cheap photocopying cost in colombo which
will never be possible in Eng.There are even more
grammar text for Myanmar pali student.
For thai student ,I think Mahamakut series of at least
4o books will be more  helpful than books by Warder
etc.
Ideally we should start with eng tran of kaccayana by
a myanmar scholar in English 100 years but out of
print now

-- Sukinderpal Narula <sukin@...> wrote:
> Thankyou Jim.
> Sukin
>
> Jim Anderson wrote:
>
> > Dear Sukin,
> >
> > I think the PTS dictionary and Warder's
> Introduction to Pali may be all you
> > need at the present time if you're only just
> beginning to study Pali. A
> > number of us here also have these two very
> valuable books so you could just
> > ask us about anything in them for clarification
> and feedback. A lot depends
> > on what information you're interested in. If you
> find Warder or the
> > dictionary doesn't offer all what you're looking
> for then you might consider
> > obtaining more books for further study. For these
> books I'd  recommend
> > Geiger's A Pali Grammar as a useful one for
> finding rare Pali words. It
> > also has many declensional and conjugational
> tables but nothing on syntax.
> > Another book you might want to consider is
> Perniola's Pali Grammar. I
> > haven't seen the book yet but it is one I intend
> to get for myself. Both of
> > these books are available from the PTS. The book
> that I consult as my main
> > authority on the Pali language is the Saddaniti
> (928pp) which has not been
> > translated into English so you'd have to know some
> Pali in order to make any
> > sense of it. Teng Kee recently mentioned to me
> that there is a Thai
> > translation of it. Even the Saddaniti doesn't
> explain everything and one
> > might then have to study Panini's famous Sanskrit
> grammar to fill in the
> > gaps. I started with just Warder and it wasn't
> until about seven years later
> > that I got started on the Saddaniti.
> >
> > Wishing you success in your Pali studies,
> > Jim
> >
> > >Dear Jim and all,
> > >Thanks a lot for the welcome.
> > >Judging from my accumulations I do not fit so
> well in here, since I
> > >have never been a studious person.
> > >But life is short, and at any time death might
> make a visit.
> > >Buddhadhamma is important, Pali is important too.
> > >I have the 'Introduction to Pali' by Warder, ant
> the PTS pali/english
> > >dict. And so if anyone can please suggest me any
> other books that
> > >would help me with the study I'd appreciate
> greatly.
> > >Thanks in advance,
> > >Sukin.
> >
> >
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