title: Concise Pali-English Dictionary
author: A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera
description: I am certain that this dictionary will be found indispensable by all students of the Pali language in acquiring a practical and working knowledge of the subject even at the University level, and also serve as a reliable guide to the more abstruse language of the Tipitaka - --O.H. de A. Wijeskara
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  **The Four**  
   **Noble Truths**
  
    
  
  Ajahn Sumedho
  
    
    
    
  
  Amaravati Publications
  
    
  
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   **Note to the reader**
  
  In order to make this e-book readable in a variety of electronic formats a
  simplified form of representing Pali words has been used; some of the
  diacritical marks have therefore not been included in this edition.
  
  To check the spelling of any particular Pali word, please consult the Pali
  Text Society's _Pali-English Dictionary_ , the Buddhist Publication Society’s
  _Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines_ , or other
  resources available on the Internet.
  
   _ **A Handful of Leaves**_
  
   _The Blessed One was once living at Kosambi in a wood of simsapa trees. He
  picked up a few leaves in his hand, and he asked the bhikkhus, 'How do you
  conceive this, bhikkhus, which is more, the few leaves that I have picked up
  in my hand or those on the trees in the wood'_
  
   _'The leaves that the Blessed One has picked up in his hand are few, Lord;
  those in th