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The extracts from Wilhelm Geiger’s edition of the Mahāvaṁsa and Cūlavaṁsa are copyright Pali Text Society, Oxford (used by permission).

The extracts from G. P. Malalasekera’s edition of the Extended Mahāvaṁsa 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 Gāndhārī Dharmapada are copyright Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi (used by permission).

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

K.R. Norman’s article on The origins of the āryā 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 Pāli Meter, from Introduction to Pali is reprinted with permission from the author.

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

Buddhacarita, edited and translated by E.B. Cowell
Mahāvastu, edited by E. Senart
Śrī Piṅgala’s Chandas Śāstra, edited by Paṇḍit Kedāranāth
Śrutabodha by Śrīmat Kālidāsa, edited by Vāsudev Laxmaṇ Shāstrī Paṇśīkar
Dāṭhāvaṁsa, 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 Bṛhaddevatā
J.H. Moore giving a Metrical Analysis of the Pāli Iti-vuttaka

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BJT Khuddakapāṭhapāḷi
New Khuddakapāṭha
BJT Dhammapadapāḷi
New Dhammapada
BJT Udānapāḷi
BJT Itivuttakapāḷi
BJT Bhikkhupātimokkhapāḷi
Pārāyanavagga - A Critical Edition

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

Khuddakapāṭha
Udāna - Exalted Utterances
Safeguard Recitals
Dhammacakkappavattanasuttaṁ
Girimānandasuttaṁ
Karaṇīyamettasuttaṁ
Saccavibhaṅghasuttaṁ
Pārāyanavagga
Mahārāhulovādasuttaṁ
Mālunkyaputtasuttaṁ

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This notice posted in May 2013
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Ānandajoti Bhikkhu
May 26th 2013