Pāli (Pāḷi) (f.) [cp. Sk. pālī a causeway, bridge Halāyudha iii.54] 1. a line, row Dāvs iii.61; iv.3; Vism 242 (dvattiŋs' ākāra˚), 251 (danta˚); SnA 87. -- 2. a line, norm, thus the canon of Buddhist writings; the text of the Pāli Canon, i. e. the original text (opp. to the Commentary; thus "pāliyaŋ" is opposed to "aṭṭhakathāyaŋ" at Vism 107, 450, etc). It is the literary language of the early Buddhists, closely related to Māgadhī. See Grierson, The Home of Lit. Pāli (Bhandarkar Commemoration vol. p. 117 sq.), and literature given by Winternitz, Gesch. d. Ind. Litt., ii.10; iii.606, 635. The word is only found in Commentaries, not in the Piṭaka. See also Hardy, Introd. to Nett, p. xi. -- J iv.447 (˚nayena accord. to the Pāli Text); Vism 376 (˚nay' anusārena id.), 394, 401, 565 (˚anusārato accord. to the text of the Canon); 607, 630, 660 sq., 693, 712; KhA 41; SnA 333, 424, 519, 604; DhsA 157, 168; DhA iv.93; VvA 117, 203 (pālito+aṭṭhuppattito); PvA 83, 87, 92, 287; and freq. elsewhere.
   -- vaṇṇanā is explanation of the text (as regards meaning of words), purely textual criticism, as opposed to vinicchaya -- kathā analysis, exegesis, interpretation of sense Vbh 291; Vism 240 (contrasted to bhāvanāniddesa).