The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

We have to thank Mrs. STEDE for valuable help in copying out material noted in my interleaved copy of
Childers, and in collating indexes published by the Society; Mrs. RHYS DAVIDS for revising certain
articles on the technical terms of psychology and philosophy; and the following scholars for kindly placing
at our disposal the material they had collected for the now abandoned scheme of an international Pali
Dictionary:
Prof. STEN KONOW. Words beginning with S or H. (Published in J P T S. 1909 and 1907, revised by
Prof. Dr. C ANDERSEN).
Dr. MABEL H. BODE. B, Bh and M.
Prof.DUROISELLE. K.
Dr. W.H.D. ROUSE. C--N
In this connection I should wish to refer to the work of Dr. EDMOND HARDY. When he died he left a
great deal of material; some of which has reached us in time to be made available. He was giving his whole
time, and all his enthusiasm to the work, and had he lived the dictionary would probably have been finished
before the war. His loss was really the beginning of the end of the international undertaking.
Anybody familiar with this sort of work will know what care and patience, what scholarly knowledge and
judgment are involved in the collection of such material, in the sorting, the sifting and final arrangement of
it, in the adding of cross references, in the consideration of etymological puzzles, in the comparison and
correction of various or faulty readings, and in the verification of references given by others, or found in
the indexes. For all this work the users of the Dictionary will have to thank my colleague, Dr. WILLIAM
STEDE. It may be interesting to notice here that the total number of references to appear in this first edition
of the new dictionary is estimated to be between one hundred and fifty and one hundred and sixty thousand.
The Bavarian Academy has awarded to Dr. STEDE a personal grant of 3100 marks for his work on this
Dictionary.
Chipstead, Surrey. July, 1921. T. W. RHYS DAVIDS.