Copyright Notice

The databases of the Pàëi texts of the following documents were originally prepared by the Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project, and were released under the terms of the GNU licence, and remain in the public domain (which licence was originally intended is not clear, as it seems to have never been stated, but it seems reasonable to think that the GNU Free Documentation License would cover it).

Under the terms of the licence all derived works are also in the public domain, and that includes all the documents on this website whose databases were originally prepared by the Project, and which are listed here:

BJT Khuddakapàñhapàëi
New Khuddakapàñha
BJT Dhammapadapàëi
New Dhammapada
BJT Udànapàëi
BJT Itivuttakapàëi
BJT Bhikkhupàtimokkhapàëi
Pàràyanavagga - A Critical Edition

and the text sections of the following works (for the translation section see below):

Khuddakapàñha
Udàna - Exalted Utterances
Safeguard Recitals
Dhammacakkappavattanasuttaü
Girimànandasuttaü
Karaõãyamettasuttaü
Saccavibhaïghasuttaü
Pàràyanavagga
Mahàràhulovàdasuttaü
Màlunkyaputtasuttaü

The copyright has lapsed on the following documents are they are now in the public domain:

Buddhacarita, edited and translated by E.B. Cowell
Mahàvastu, edited by E. Senart
ørã Piïgala's Chandas øàstra, edited by Paõóit Kedàranàth
ørutabodha by ørãmat Kàlidàsa, edited by Vàsudev Laxmaõ Shàstrã Paõèãkar
Dàñhàvaüsa, edited by T.W. Rhys-Davids and R. Morris

The copyright has lapsed on the following articles are they are also now in the public domain:

A.A. Macdonell on Vedic Metre
Charles Duroiselle on Medieval Pali Prosody
A.A. Macdonell on Metre in Classical Sanskrit
M. Winternitz on Indian Prosodic Literature
E.V. Arnold extract from Vedic Metre in its Historical Development
A. B. Keith on The Metre Of The BÔhaddevatà
J.H. Moore giving a Metrical Analysis of the Pàli Iti-vuttaka

The extracts from Wilhelm Geiger's edition of the Mahàvaüsa and Cålavaüsa are copyright Pali Text Society, Oxford (used by permission).

Dr. Cone's edition of Patna Dharmapada is copyright Pali Text Society, Oxford (used by permission).

The extracts from Prof. John Brough's edition of The Gàndhàrã Dharmapada are copyright Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi (used by permission).

The electronic version of Dr. Franz Bernard's edition of Udànavarga is copyright Mrs. Sobotznik (the editor's sister and literary heir) (used by permission).

K.R. Norman's article on The origins of the àryà metre, is reprinted with the permission of the editor Prof. David Kalupahana from Buddhist Philosophy and Culture (Essays in honour of N.A. Jayawickrema).

Franklin Edgerton's article on Meter, Phonology, and Orthography in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, is reprinted with permission of American Oriental Society.

A.K. Warder's article on Pàli Meter, from Introduction to Pali is reprinted with permission from the author.

Everything except for those works covered in the listings above all other works, including the introductions, translations, studies, and notes accompanying most of these works are copyrighted by the present writer. Copies may be printed out for private study or as gifts of the Dhamma for friends. Anyone wishing to re-publish this material either on the Internet or in hard-copy should first contact me at the following address: .

The reason for retaining copyright on this material is that I am still correcting, improving, and updating it all as I go along, which is impossible if I do not know where it has been published. After I have passed away, everything I have written can then be considered as being subject to the following licence:

This notice posted in May 2008 supercedes all previous notices on the issue of copyright