Thursday, January 12, 2017

Free online books in pdf format on Pali grammar

1a. "Note for Pali Primer and accompanying Glossary", Eisel Mazard, 2008, English.
2 pages, 1 page layout, Good scan quality, Words as Text
108.1KB, Fast random page loading

1b. "Pali Primer", Lily De Silva, 2nd Ed. (2008), English.
50 pages, 2 page layout, Good scan quality, Words as Text
361.4KB, Fast random page loading 
> This revision of Lily De Silva's "Pali Primer" by Eisel Mazard has been deemed the "second edition" of the book. As mentioned by Eisel Mazard in the "Note for Pali Primer and accompanying Glossary," the changes are related mostly to format, but not the contents. 

1c. "Glossary for Pali Primer", Lily De Silva, 2nd Ed. (2008), English.
16 pages, 2 page layout, Good scan quality, Words as Text
200.1KB, Fast random page loading
> This revision of Lily De Silva's "Glossary for Pali Primer" by Eisel Mazard has been deemed the "second edition" of the book. As mentioned by Eisel Mazard in the "Note for Pali Primer and accompanying Glossary," the changes are related mostly to addition of Khmer and Burmese scripts.

2a. "Note for An Elementary Pali Course and accompanying Glossary", Eisel Mazard, 2008, English.
2 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
143.8KB, Fast random page loading

2b. "An Elementary Pali Course", Narada Thera, 3rd Ed. (2008), English.
53 pages, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
432.2KB, Fast random page loading
> This revision of Narada Thera's "An Elementary Pali Course" by Eisel Mazard has been deemed the "third edition" of the book. As mentioned by Eisel Mazard in the "Note for An Elementary Pali Course and accompanying Glossary", the changes are related mostly to extensive corrections and reformatting, but not the contents. 

2c. "Glossary for An Elementary Pali Course", Narada Thera, 3rd Ed. (2008), English.
15 pages, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
229.3KB, Fast random page loading
> This revision of Narada Thera's "An Elementary Pali Course" by Eisel Mazard has been deemed the "third edition" of the book. As mentioned by Eisel Mazard in the "Note for An Elementary Pali Course and accompanying Glossary", the changes are related mostly to extensive corrections and reformatting, but not the contents. 

2d. "An Elementary Pali Course", Narada Thera, 2nd Ed. (1952), English.
234 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
816.3KB, Fast random page loading

3a. "Note for A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language", Eisel Mazard, 2008, English.
2 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
156.8KB, Fast random page loading

3b. "A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language", Charles Duroiselle, 4th Ed. (2008), English.
127 pages, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
832.6KB, Fast random page loading
> This revision of Charles Duroiselle's "A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language" by Eisel Mazard has been deemed the "fourth edition" of the book. As mentioned by Eisel Mazard in the "Note for A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language," the changes are related mostly to extensive corrections and reformatting, but not the contents. 

3c. "Practical Grammar of the Pali Language", Charles Duroiselle, 3rd Ed. (1997), English.
182 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
498.0KB, Fast random page loading

4a. "Introduction to Pali", Anthony Kennedy Warder, 3rd Ed. (1991), English.
489 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as image
30200KB, Fast random page loading
> The current copy is a reprint of 3rd Ed. (1991). 

4b. "Answer Key for Warder", John Kelly, 2005, English.
138 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
1100KB, Fast random page loading

4c. "English to Pali Exercises in A. K. Warder's Introduction to Pali", Justin Meiland, English.
11 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
55.9KB, Fast random page loading

4d. "A Key to the Exercises in A. K. Warder's Introduction to Pali", Brahmali Bhikkhu, 2nd Ed. (2005), English.
88 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
796.8KB, Fast random page loading
> A differently formatted version of this book has 91 pages. 

5. "An Introductory Grammar of the Pali Language", A. R. Bomhard, 2012, English.
143 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
1300KB, Fast random page loading

6. "The New Pali Course Book I", A. P. Buddhadatta, Maha Nayaka Thera, 7th Ed. (1998), English.
129 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
2500KB, Fast random page loading

7. "A Simplified Grammar of the Pali Language", Edward Muller, 1884, English.
166 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
10710KB, Fast random page loading
> The copy of the book available from openlibrary.org/works/OL63237W/A_simplified_grammar_of_the_Pali_language has missing pages (specifically, p46-47). Similarly, the copy of the book available from static.sirimangalo.org/pdf/ has an improperly scanned page (specifically, p99). Note that although the current copy of the book [available from archive.org/details/simplifiedgramma00mulliala] is much bigger in size (specifically, 10.71MB), its loading time, etc. are comparable to that of the copy of the book available from openlibrary.org/works/OL63237W/A_simplified_grammar_of_the_Pali_language and it loads much faster than the copy of the book available from static.sirimangalo.org/pdf/. 

8. "Handbook of Pali: An Elementary Grammar, A Chrestomathy, and A Glossary", Oscar Frankfurter, 1883, English.
199 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as image
3300KB, Fast random page loading

9a. "Pali Grammar", H. H. Tilbe, 1899, English.
122 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as image
2000KB, Fast random page loading

9b. "Pali First Lessons", H. H. Tilbe, 1902, English.
132 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as image
6000KB, Fast random page loading

10. "Mazard's Version of Mason's Pali Grammar", Eisel Mazard, 2nd Ed. (2015), English.
265 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
4880KB, Slow random page loading
> (1) This revision of Mason's "Kachchayano's Pali Grammar with Chrestomathy Vocabulary" by Eisel Mazard has been deemed the "second edition" of the book. As mentioned by Eisel Mazard in the "Editor's Introduction," the changes are related to extensive corrections and reformatting. (2) Since a significant part of the book is in a different language, reassess the usefulness of the book. 

11Copy1. "An Introduction to Kachchayana's Grammar of the Pali Language", James D'Alwis, 1863, English.
287 pages, 1pg layout, Average scan quality, Words as text
15220KB, Average random page loading
> This copy of the book [available at static.sirimangalo.org/pdf/] does not contain pages xiv and xv in the very end. However, this flaw hardly matters because the missing pages contain text in Burmese. A more serious flaw of this copy of the book is that many words are not legible due to average quality of scan. 

11Copy2. "An Introduction to Kachchayana's Grammar of the Pali Language", James D'Alwis, 1863, English.
301 pages, 1pg layout, Average scan quality, Words as text
121800KB, Slow random page loading
> Even though this copy of the book does not have any missing pages, it is better to use the copy of the book obtained from static.sirimangalo.org for regular reading because the pages of that copy load faster than the pages of this copy (3-4 seconds for randomly selected pages for that copy compared to 5-8 seconds for randomly selected pages for this copy). Besides, the quality of scan of that copy is slightly better. The positive feature of this copy of the book is that it contains all pages. 

11Copy3. "An Introduction to Kachchayana's Grammar of the Pali Language", James D'Alwis, 1863, English.
302 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
20280KB, Very slow random page loading
> Just like the copy of the book obtained from static.sirimangalo.org/pdf/, this copy of the book [obtained from archive.org] also has two missing pages in the very end, namely, xiv and xv. In fact, since both copies have the same stained pages (p81-89) as well, one can easily figure out that they have been produced by scanning the same book. Anyway, despite the same flaw, this copy has been made available because of its superior quality of scan. So, while one can use the copy of the book obtained from static.sirimangalo.org for regular reading because the pages of that copy load faster than the pages of this copy (3-4 seconds for randomly selected pages for that copy compared to 15-25 seconds for the next page and 30-40 seconds for randomly selected pages for this copy), if any word is not legible in that copy of the book or if one wishes to copy and paste some portion of the text--the scanned pages of this copy of the book are not images--, then one can use this copy of the book. (By the way, one would have to wait patiently for all words in a page to display very clearly before one can select words.) 

12a. "Noun Declensions", Nanatusita, 2005, English.
2 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
54.96KB, Fast random page loading

12b. "Pronoun Declensions", Nanatusita, 2005, English.
1 page, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
40.77KB, Fast random page loading

12c. "Verb Declensions", Nanatusita, 2005, English.
1 page, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
35.12KB, Fast random page loading

12d. "Noun Declensions", Nanatusita, 2005, English.
1 page, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
49.34KB, Fast random page loading
> This book has all information on a single page. 

12e. "Pronoun Declensions and Verbs", Nanatusita, 2005, English.
2 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
43.4KB, Fast random page loading
> This book is concatenation of two books, namely, Pronoun Declensions and Verbs. 

12f. "Pronoun Declensions and Verbs", Nanatusita, 2005, English.
1 page, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
45.99KB, Fast random page loading
> This book has all information on a single page. 

13a. "Noun Declensions", Dhammadarsa Bhikkhu, 2011, English.
8 pages, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
510.3KB, Fast random page loading
> The year of publication has been mentioned at the website from where the notes were downloaded. 

13b. "Pronoun Declensions", Dhammadarsa Bhikkhu, 2011, English.
1 page, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
182.8KB, Fast random page loading
> The year of publication has been mentioned at the website from where the notes were downloaded. 

13c. "Verb Declensions", Dhammadarsa Bhikkhu, 2011, English.
3 pages, 2pg layout by design, Good scan quality, Words as text
272.7KB, Fast random page loading
> The year of publication has been mentioned at the website from where the notes were downloaded. 

14. "A Practical Guide to Pali Grammar", Anandajoti Bhikkhu, 3rd Ed. (2016), English.
29 pages, 1pg layout, Good scan quality, Words as text
627.1KB, Fast random page loading
> Apparently, this is a work in progress. In 2015, this book had fewer pages.