Re: PTS dict vol 1

Dear Jim,
This thai root book gave all those in saddaniti and
dhatupatha and dhatumanjusa with some valuable
comments in thai language.I do not think it will help
you much if you can't read thai.


--- Jim Anderson <jimanderson_on@...> wrote:
> Hi Tadao,
>
> >Hi, Jim:
> >When you visit Thailand, you can visit the
> Mahamakkutt Bookstore and
> >pick up a copy of "Dhaatu-ppdiipikaa", which
> shouldn't cost you
> >more than a couple of dollars. This root dictonary
> lists the definition
> >of the most of (common) Pali roots both in Pali and
> Thai.
> >tadao
>
> Thank you for the recommendation. How does this book
> compare with the lists
> of verbal roots with their meanings by Kaccayana,
> Aggavamsa, and Moggallana?
> The second part of Aggavamsa's Saddaniti is the
> Dhatumala which contains
> about 1700 Pali roots each with a commentary. This
> is what I use mostly. You
> can download this volume at tipitaka.org. In the
> files section of the
> homepage for palistudy you can get a copy of a small
> plain text file I put
> together (p1-rts-7.txt) quite some time ago. It
> contains the complete list
> of 1687 Pali roots from the Dhatumala (H. Smith's
> romanized edition).
>
> As you noted in another message, the Pali root for
> 'pa.tipatti' is 'pad' and
> is listed in the Dhatumala as: 1127. pada gatiya.m
> (Class 3). It is also
> interesting to compare the Pali roots with those in
> Panini's Dhatupatha with
> over 2000 Sanskrit verbal roots. It's easy to match
> up the Pali ones with
> their Sanskrit counterparts. There is a lot more
> homonymy in Pali than in
> Sanskrit and therefore a knowledge of the distinct
> Sanskrit forms helps to
> sort out the confusion caused by different roots
> that look the same in Pali
> but not so in Sanskrit. In some ways I think Pali is
> a more subtle and
> difficult language than Sanskrit.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jim
>
>
>
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