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Abhidhānappadīpikāṭīkā

The Subcommentary on the Lamp of Nouns

GRAMMATICAL TRADITION · volume 10 of 13

The subcommentary on the Pali dictionary, closing Abhidhānappadīpikāṭīkā niṭṭhitā. About 1350 CE, by Norman's dating; a separate saṃvaṇṇanā on the same dictionary was written in Burma in the same century, in the reign of Kittisīhasūra.

Its usefulness follows from the peculiarity of the book it explains. Because part of the Abhidhānappadīpikā's vocabulary was manufactured out of Sanskrit rather than gathered from Pali usage, a commentary is what stands between the reader and a list of words that no Pali text uses. The volume is anonymous.

How it ends

Abhidhānappadīpikāṭīkā niṭṭhitā.

SourcesNorman 1983, p. 167.

Layer
Treatise — treatise
Collection
GRAMMATICAL TRADITION · volume 10 of 13
On
The Subcommentary on the Lamp of Nouns
Written by
anonymousNorman 1983, p. 167 names no author
When
about 1350 CENorman 1983, p. 167
Pali text
Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
English
In progress