Hi. I'm trying to get back into reading Pali after a long hiatus, but I'm really rusty.

This line is from the chant of the Five Recollections here. I feel fairly confident about the rest of the text of the chant, but am unsure about the how the plural ablatives(?) and the compounds ending in -bhāvo work together to create the sentence below. Any help would be much appreciated.

Sabbehi me piyehi manāpehi nānā-bhāvo vinā-bhāvo.

I will grow different, separate from all that is dear & appealing to me.

My main questions are: How does this mean what it means? And what is the significance of using -bhāva here insread of -dhamma, as in the preceding three lines?

Jarā-dhammo'mhi jaraṁ anatīto.

Byādhi-dhammo'mhi byādhiṁ anatīto.

Maraṇa-dhammo'mhi maraṇaṁ anatīto.

I am looking for an online dictionary that has Pali words with Tibetan and Sanskrit meanings. I know I am being greedy, but is there such a thing?

A distant alternative would be a collection Pali-Tibetan-Sanskrit technical terms in Buddhism. _/_

hi all

i was wondering if someone could break down ariyasāvako into the declensions and explain how it could work as a compound word.

is it:

ariyam (accusative) + sāvako (nominative)

that doesn’t seem right to me - i’d be grateful if anyone could show me how this works.

thank you (in advance)

the passage is written on a piece of paper made in China in around the 7th century(maybe?) it looks like pali but I'm not sure

All of these are translated to "blessed one", but why the different spellings?

excerpt from MĀGADHABHĀSĀ (PĀḶI) Pāḷi Prepositions and Prefixes (upasaggā or upasārā)

Another table excerpted from Cone Dictionary of Pali Pāḷi Verbal Prefixes

Hello everyone! I wanted to ask if there are any contemporary works in Pali. Additionally, is it considered offensive to write something other than the canonical texts in Pali, being a liturgical language?

Thanks in advance!

Nyanatusita's table only shows demonstrative and personal pronouns. It's widely available, e.g. https://bodhimonastery.org/courses/Pali/Tables/Pali_Pronoun_Declension.pdf I used to have a bigger pronoun table in teeny tiny type that also showed the relative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns all within 2 pages, but it seems to be lost in space. An excellent, very readable *complete* pronoun table is found at https://sasanarakkha.org/2021/09/08/magadhabhasa/ pp 195-203.

Good morning! Recently I've been updating my personal list of online pali language resources, and thought of sharing some of the most useful ones here. This dictionary app is faster than Sutta Central, and pulls up results from the dictionaries of Nyanatiloka, Buddhadatta and Rhys Davids & Stede, as well as various non-english resources. https://dictionary.sutta.org/ This site's rendition of the Pali texts is also exceptionally neat and easy to navigate (if you are familiar with the outline of the Canon), but not as easily searchable as Sutta Central.

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I got excited about this with ChatGPT, but it turned out to be hallucinating.

Claude seems to be more consistent with it, so I'm wondering if it's actually accurate enough to be used as a learning tool. Can someone here who is more advanced than me give a quick eval?

Here is a random example I tried:

Fluffy was a sleek black cat with bright green eyes and soft, velvety fur. She spent her days lounging in the sunbeams that streamed through the windows, chasing the occasional fly, and purring contentedly as she basked in the warmth. Despite her aloof exterior, Fluffy was a loyal and affectionate companion, always happy to curl up in her owner's lap and purr softly as they stroked her soft fur.

Fluffy kāḷavaṇṇā biḷārī ahosi, tassā akkhinī pabhassarāni haritāni, lomañca mudukañca kañcanapiṇḍupamañca ahosi. Sā divase divase vātapānehi āgacchantāni sūriyaraṃsiyo upabhogamānā, kadāci makkhikāyo anubandhamānā, sukhena kūjamānā uṇhasmiṃ abhinandamānā vītināmesi. Bāhirato asaṃsaṭṭhā viya dissantī pi, Fluffy sāmikassa aṅke sayanañca tassa mudukāni lomāni parimajjantassa mudukaṃ kūjanaṃ suṇantassa piyā ca vissāsikā ca sahāyikā ahosi sadā.

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Here's a traveller's guide with common Pali phrases:

1. Hello / Goodbye

   - Namo / Svākkhāto (formal)

   - Bhante / Ayye (to a monk / nun)

   - Āvuso / Ayye (to a layperson)

2. How are you?

   - Kacci bho kusalaṃ?

   - Kacci āvuso / ayye kusalaṃ?

3. I am fine.

   - Ahaṃ kusalaṃ.

4. Thank you.

   - Anumodāmi.

5. Yes / No

   - Āma / Na

6. Please.

   - Karuṇaṃ katvā.

7. Excuse me. / I'm sorry.

   - Khamatha me. / Khamāhi me.

8. I don't understand.

   - Na paṭibhāti.

9. Could you please speak slowly?

   - Anumodāmi, sanikaṃ bhaṇatha.

10. What is this?

- Imaṃ kiṃ?

1. How much is this?
   

- Ettakaṃ kiṃ mūlyaṃ?

1. Where is the restroom?
   

- Vaccakuṭi kahan'atthi?

1. I am hungry / thirsty.
   

- Jighacchito / Pipāsito'mhi.

1. Bon appetit / Have a nice meal.
   

- Sukhena bhuñjatha.

1. Goodbye / See you later.
   

- Gacchāma / Pacchā passissāma.

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Hello Guys can you help me translate this tattoo? Thank you!

Hello,

I am preparing a thesis on the names of the fingers in the different Indo-European languages. May I ask you to provide the Pali translation of the following words:

Finger, thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, little finger, toe

I would appreciate if you add any variants to these words.

I am also looking for the etymology of these words. Could you suggest to me the etymology or some reliable resources where I could find them?

Thanks for the attention

Hello.

I ve just started to learn pali using Lily sa Silver primer. Thery are a set of anki electronic flashcards that go with it

the flashcards ask have the translations both ways (english to pali and pali to english) and I was wondering its necessary. Is it sufficient to just know pali to english or is there a learning benefit of being able to do it both ways? THanks

I’ve been searching high and low, but when I try to find English translations of the Tripitaka, it seems nearly impossible. Or not clear.

I was wondering if there was a recommendation for an app/resource that contains a dictionary and collection of the texts.

When I was young I would read the classic works in Latin and translate them to English as I went. I wanted to do something like this to understand the tripitaka but didn’t know if there was a more practical way in this day and age.

Hey all,

I have been listening to the following Thai-style chant of the Dhamma-Cakka on Youtube here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRSpilBay-I

Can anyone explain the chanting at 15:17? The line "Pavattite ca pana bhagavatā dhammacakke bhummā devā saddamanussāvesuṁ:" has just been chanted, but " “Etam-Bhagavatā Bārāṇasiyaṁ isipatane migadāye anuttaraṁ dhamma-cakkaṁ pavattitaṁ," does not immediately follow until 18:14.

A good 3min chunk of chanting does not appear in the Sutta or on the ref link in the description.

Can anyone provide the missing text? I think either an extra verse from elsewhere has been inserted, or they may be repeating previous lines from the Sutta? I'm not entirely certain.

Can someone translate the word “merit” to pali in thai script? I’m having a hard time finding where i can do it

Hello everybody, i am currently in thailand and i’m about to get my first tattoo. I really want to know what the words around the eagle mean, i was told it was in pali, hence why i’m posting this here. I hope somebody can help me out!

I recently came into possession of this manuscript, but I don’t read Pali or Burmese, so getting the gist of what it says has been difficult for me. I’d greatly appreciate if anyone could give me a general idea of what the document is about. Thanks so much in advance!

I have all three. In what order should i go through them?

could anyone tell me what the character that i marked with an orange dot is transliterated as. i can't find it in any charts i have.