Translator: Varado Bhikkhu
I have based this translation on the Pāli of the Vipassana Research Institute Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana version (www. vri.dhamma.org), and the digital edition of the Sri Lanka Buddha Jayanti Tripiṭaka (http:// metta.lk/tipitaka/index.html). I have usually accepted K.R. Norman’s suggested amendments, although I have usually uncorrected metrically corrected text.
For the first chapter of this translation, the Chapter Of Poems With Single Verses, I have included Mrs Rhys Davids versions of poems from her Psalms of the Sisters.
• BDPPN: Buddhist Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names by Malalasekara (Pāli Text Society, 1937-8).
• DOP: A Dictionary of Pāli, Part 1 by M. Cone (Pāli Text Society, 2001).
• GD: Group of Discourses by K.R. Norman (Pāli Text Society, 2006).
• IGPT: Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms by Varado Bhikkhu
• PED: Pāli-English Dictionary by T.W. Rhys Davids & W. Stede (Pāli Text Society).
• PGPL: A Practical Grammar of the Pāli Language by C. Duroiselle (Buddha Dharma Education Association, 1997).
• Ānandajoti Bhikkhu: Ancient Buddhist Texts, www. ancient-buddhist-texts.net
• Bodhi Bhikkhu: Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom, 1995); Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom, 2000); Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Wisdom, 2012).
• Cone: A Dictionary of Pāli Part 1 (Pāli Text Society, 2001).
• Duroiselle: A Practical Grammar of the Pāli Language, Buddha Dharma Education Association, 1997.
• Geiger W., A Pāli Grammar (Pāli Text Society 1994)
• Horner I.B.: Books of Discipline (Pāli Text Society, 1938-1952); Middle Length Sayings (Pāli Text Society, 1954-1959).
• Malalasekara: Buddhist Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names (Pāli Text Society, 1937-8).
• Norman K.R.: Group of Discourses (Pāli Text Society, 2006).
• Norman K.R.: The Elders’ Verses 1 (Pāli Text Society, 2007).
• Norman K.R.: The Elders’ Verses 2 (Pāli Text Society, 2007).
• Ñāṇatusita: Declension and Conjugation Tables (2005).
• Rhys Davids & Stede: Pāli-English Dictionary (Pāli Text Society).
• Mrs. Rhys Davids: Psalms of the Sisters (Pāli Text Society, 1909).
• Varado Bhikkhu: Illustrated Glossary of Pāli Terms (2017).
• Warder A.K., Introduction to Pāli (Pāli Text Society 2001)