The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The first written source dates from 300 BCE.
It is written in the Pāli language, which is a close relative of Sanskrit.
- wikipedia Dhammapada
- wikipedia Pāli, ISO-codes
pli,pi - Pāli-English with comments, by stanza
- Interlinear Pāli-English (single PDF)
- English translation online
- English translation (single PDF)
The text that is the source of this dataset rests on the work of Viggo Fausböll who translated the Dhammapada into Latin in 1855. We took the text from the 1900 edition of his book in which he included the original Pāli text in Latin script.
| field | value |
|---|---|
| title | The Dhammapada |
| subtitle | being a collection of moral verses in Pāli |
| remark | edited a second time with a literal latin translation and notes for the use of Pāli students |
| editor | V. Fausboll |
| publisher | Luzac & Co., Publishers to the India Office |
| publisher address | 46, Great Russell Street, W.C. London |
| published | 1900 |
The cover page of that edition is:
The Dhammapada is divided in vaggas which are divided in stanzas. There are 26 vaggas and 423 stanzas, which are numbered consecutively throughout the whole work.
As an example, here are the first 7 stanzas of the first vagga in Pāli:
and here the same stanzas in Latin:
- Fausbøll, Michael Viggo, The Dhammapada. Being a collection of moral verses in Pali. Edited a second time with a literal Latin translation and notes for the use of Pali students. free fragment of an article by Burkhard Scherer (PDF)
The conversion program in in tfFromTxt.py. It can be seen in action in a Jupyter notebook: convert.ipynb
- 2021-12-24 First version. The text-fabric features correspond to the plain texts and the obvious structure in vaggas, stanzas, sentences, and clauses. No attempts to add linguistic features have been made so far.
We can use the current dataset to generate workflows to annotate the texts with linguistic features, such as lemma, part-of-speech, etc.