Compare: Pali Editions Side by Side
Any text can be read in six Pali editions at once, line by line, with the differences highlighted.
| Tag | Edition | Country | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJT | Buddha Jayanti | Sri Lanka | tipitaka.lk |
| VRI | Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana | Myanmar | tipitaka.org |
| SR | Siam Rath 1927 | Thailand | E-Tipitaka |
| MS | Mahāsaṅgīti (SuttaCentral) | Thailand | SuttaCentral |
| MS05 | Mahāsaṅgīti 2005, as printed | Thailand | tipitaka2500.github.io |
| PTS | Pali Text Society | UK | GRETIL |
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Try it: sn56.11.
Problems of each edition and what we did
✅ fixed here · 📨 reported to the edition · ➖ left as the edition has it, shown by Differences · ❗ not solved yet
Mahāsaṅgīti (SuttaCentral)
Introduced by SuttaCentral's own edits; the printed edition does not have them. Reported: sc-data#463, dg-node#71.
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| 📨 | aparimutto for parimutto: the meaning reversed | sn35.19:2.9, sn35.20:2.2 |
| 📨 | Idha, bhikkhave for Idhāvuso | dn33:1.11.85 |
| 📨 | two segments in the wrong order | sn22.7:8.2 |
| 📨 | vā missing; ammukhāvinayena for sammukhāvinayena | pli-tv-bu-vb-ss13:2.8, pli-tv-pvr5:122.4 |
| 📨 | the English note "On Display: Title of Section Only" instead of Pali | sn48.137-146:1.1, sn50.67-76:1.1 |
| 📨 | the exposition of the four truths, which the print has, left out | mn10:44.3 |
Mahāsaṅgīti 2005, printed
Only clear misprints are corrected: a letter lost or garbled, in one place. Vowel length and the edition's usual spelling are kept. Reported: tipitaka2500#1, dg-node#73; the full list: mso-typos.md.
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | ānāmi → jānāmi (8 places), yoveti → yo vedi, kharapattasannitaṁ → kharapattasannibhaṁ | an1.439:1.3, iti99:6.1, ja526:41.2 |
| ➖ | the negation na missing | mn94:3.6, pli-tv-kd2:21.1.1 |
| ➖ | part of a phrase missing (pāṇātipātaṁ pahāya, so rūpe …), 9 places | an10.217:20.2, sn22.149:1.7 |
| ➖ | a word no other edition has, 15 places | dn9:33.26, dn29:30.4 |
| ➖ | vowel length and spelling (dussilyaṁ, thinamiddha …), 150 readings | an10.75:9.4, mn10:36.6 |
| ❗ | a few Paṭṭhāna passages missing from the reconstruction site | patthana3.3:1.1 |
Buddha Jayanti
Reported: tipitaka.lk#154, dg-node#72.
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| 📨 | words glued by a quotation mark, 4 places | |
| ➖ | two suttas where MS has one | sn37.5:1.1, sn37.15:1.1 |
Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (VRI)
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | Pātimokkha rule names and section titles ran into the text | pli-tv-bu-pm:1.1 |
| ❗ | almost a whole book in its first line | ya7.2.1:1.1 |
Siam Rath 1927
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | no Pātimokkha: the Mahāmakuṭa Pātimokkha is shown, its preliminaries whole in the first line | pli-tv-bu-pm:1.1 |
PTS
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | the start of a sentence torn off before a passage PTS does not print, 38 places | dn22:18.27 |
| ➖ | no end lines or headings; the Jātaka verses only; no Netti or Peṭakopadesa |
All editions
| what | where | |
|---|---|---|
| ✅ | lines out of place put back: 577 lines in 73 texts, and 150 lines in 11 texts where a repeated passage shifted the alignment | sn35.229:1.1, an4.102:3.2 |
| ❗ | 2772 places left where a word stands in another line; worked through by plan, twice a week |
In detail, with every place: editions-problems.md.
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