A supplementary catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit books in the library of the British museum acquired during the years 1892-1906 / Comp. by L. D. Barnett.

  • British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts.
Date:
1908
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Credit: A supplementary catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit books in the library of the British museum acquired during the years 1892-1906 / Comp. by L. D. Barnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. As is implied by its title, tlie present volume is a supplement to the “ CVitalogue of Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit Books in the British Museum ” compiled by the late Professor Bendall, and in essentials follows the principles observed in that work. In a few points, however, it has been found advisable to depart from them. Thus the rea<ler will now tind all the Works of the Pali Canon arranged according to their places under the three headings AhhidhammapitaJca, Suttapitahi, and Vinayapitaka, instead of being distributed into some twenty sometimes overlapping articles. Similarly the various recensions in which the grammars of Panini and Kachchayana are taught are here all brought together under the respective headings Pnn'uii and Kachchayana, in strict observance of the rules of the General Catalogue of the jMuseum Library. Owing to the number of Burmese titles occurring in this Catalogue, it has been necessary to draw up a definitive scheme for the transliteration of Burmese vernacular sounds. As is well known, Burmese has undergone very great phonetic changes since the Pali language and alphabet were introduced. Thus Itthi, aiiga, cijjd, patichcln/, samupjxlda, are now pronounced eikti, Inga, iceikzd, padeiksa, thanwkpddiL. In the ca.se of Pali words such phonetic eccentricities may be disregarded here. But in translitera- tion of vernacular words our guide must be the living pronunciation of educated society ; and accordingly the following rules have been laid down for them, corresponding in the main to those formulated in the official “ Tables for the Transliteration of Burmese into English” (Rangoon, 1896, 1898). I. The representation of open vowels is as follows ;— e C30 0 aw The other vowels are represented as in the case of Pali. aw