Re: Pali Roots

Dear Ven. Yuttadhammo,

The Saddaniiti has a comprehensive listing of 1687 Pali roots in its
Dhaatumaala volume (included on the CSCD disk). Some years ago I typed
up a handy list of all 1687 roots with their meanings that I extracted
from H. Smith's edition of the Saddaniiti. The list is in a plain text
file (44K) in the Velthuis scheme that I'd be happy to email you if
you're interested in a copy. Here's a small portion to give you an
idea of how it looks:

    3 ku sadde,
    4 ke ca.
    5 phakka niicagatiya.m. (cs pakka)
    6 taka hasane.
    7 taki kicchajiivane.
    8 suka gatiya.m.
    9 bukka bhassane.
   10 dhaka pa.tighaate gatiya~nca.

The Dhaatumaala itself comments on each of these entries. There is a
Thai script volume of this text available from the Bhumibalo
Foundation in Bkk. However, the roots in it are not numbered as in
Smith's edition.

Best wishes,
Jim

<< My venerable pali teacher has asked that I find information about
any extent list of pali roots that might be more or less complete.  He
says there should be at least 1000 roots, but that he has never seen
any list so complete.  I have seen lists of Sanskrit roots, even on
the Internet, but never pali ones.  If there exists any text
containing all (or at least most) pali roots, electronic or hard copy
(more probable, I suppose), I would like to inquire as to whether
someone on this list might have information on how to obtain such a
text. >>

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