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Chulachomklao of Siam Pāḷi Tipiṭaka :
A Digital Preservation Edition 2008

Seven catagories of Pāḷi Tipiṭaka information which has been presented in this multimedia publication

1. Siam-Script to Roman-Script Transliteration for Tipiṭaka Romanization & Roman-Script to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for Pāḷi Transcription, showing the transliteration of Pāḷi into Siam and Roman scripts. It also shows the transcription of the 8 vowel sounds and 33 consonant sounds of the Pāḷi language into the Pāḷi IPA. This information appears in columns in the left and right-hand margins of all 16,248 pages.

2. The World Tipiṭaka Structures and Titles in Roman Script, which provides a general comparative picture of the Tipiṭaka structures in the Siam script and Roman script versions of the Pāḷi text, appears in the lower left-hand corner of each page.

3. The e-Tipiṭaka Quotation Number provides a system of links for obtaining information about the Siam-script and Roman-script editions of the Tipiṭaka on the Internet at www.Tipiṭakaquotation.net. This feature allows users to copy and print information from any of 118,280 paragraphs of the Roman-script edition in a variety of media formats.

4. Example of Parallel Corpus Siam-Script/Roman-Script Tipiṭaka compares Pāḷi sounds in Siam and Roman scripts and appears in the lower right-hand corner of each of the 16,248 pages.

5. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the Digital Preservation Edition allows users to search the digital archive using imaging technology on each of the 16,248 pages at www.Tipiṭakahall.net.

6. The Endnotes contain a total of 7,414 variant readings between the Siam-script Tipiṭaka and Roman-script version. Previously printed as footnotes in the original manuscript, here they have been assembled at the end of the book.

7. Pāḷi Word Index in Roman Script lists a total of 109,629 words in Roman script and identifies their location in the Siam-script version of the Pāḷi text. The index appears at the end of the book.