Andersen D. A Pāli Reader with Notes and Glossary. Part I: Text and Notes

Third edition, revised. — Kopenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel — Nordisk Forlag, 1917. — 132 p.The following selections from Pali literature were intended to serve as reading exercises at my own university-lectures, but I hope they may also be useful to other teachers of Indian philology, who wish to supply the Sanskrit lessons with an elementary course in Buddhist literature. Many of the selected specimens are well known, having been translated and discussed very often in Western literature, still I think they will be welcome to beginners in the original language. I have considered the Jātaka, from which the first 60 pages are taken, to be the fittest matter for the first reading, and I think these 60 pages will be sufficient for the first semester's exercises. The rest of the book, containing specimens chiefly illustrating the history of Buddha and Buddhist religion and litterature, can probably be read in a second semester, and a third semester might then be devoted to reading the Dhammapada, of which the second edition is now easily accessible. To that purpose the following glossary will be arranged so that it includes, not only all the words of the selected texts but also the words of the Dhammapada not occurring in the reader.