Coverage
What Pali Canon for Claude contains in version 2.1.0, computed directly from the bundled data (server/data/canon.json.gz, server/data/translations.json and server/data/anandajoti.json).
Summary
| Edition | Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka (Sixth Council, Yangon, 1954–56), Vipassana Research Institute, romanised text |
| Source version | VipassanaTech/tipitaka-xml, commit 2d134ff9ef60f70a1eb03c9370580228811a3070 |
| Books | 61 VRI files (all root texts, mūla, of the three piṭakas, plus the Milindapañha and Peṭakopadesa that the Burmese canon includes) |
| Size | about 2.8 million words of Pāli; 5.6 MB compressed |
| Citable texts | 8,544, each with a standard citation ID |
| Grouped texts | 1,259 texts printed together with others (AN 1.296–305, Dhp 1–20…) answer to their own number too |
| Abbreviated texts | 266 texts that the edition abbreviates (peyyāla) are marked approximate |
| PTS page markers | 11,964 |
| Thai, Myanmar and VRI page markers | 56,050 (21,781 Thai, 16,687 Myanmar, 17,582 VRI), shown in get_text and accepted as citations such as “Thai MN 1.103”; 56,048 resolve back to a text containing the marker |
| Variant readings | 18,725 VRI notes; 16,632 (88.8%) give at least one reading attributed to editions by siglum (get_text variants: "structured") |
| Scripts | Roman, plus Sinhala, Thai, Myanmar, Devanagari, Khmer, Lao and Lanna by transliteration. The first five are tested against VRI’s own script editions; Lao and Lanna have no VRI edition and are tested by round trip only |
| English translation links | 2,540 links covering 1,400 texts directly, 1,823 including verses that share their chapter’s translation (64 of them placed by the content-based linker, #37). list_sources reports the same per collection as translation_coverage, counting grouped ranges through their members (1,374 and 1,797 of 8,445) |
| Commentary (Aṭṭhakathā) | VRI commentaries aligned to the texts by VRI paragraph number (get_commentary, get_text commentary: true): DN 34/34, MN 152/152, SN 1,800/1,954, AN 1,598/2,085, Dhp 449/449, Ja 512/547, Vinaya 370/443 texts; every text the commentary numbers is aligned except 8 known exceptions. server/data/commentary.json.gz, 10.8 MB |
| Post-canonical books | All 109 VRI Ṭīkā and Añña books (Visuddhimagga, its Mahāṭīkā, Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha, Mahāvaṃsa and the sub-commentaries), labelled canonical: false (get_post_canonical, search_post_canonical). server/data/postcanonical.json.gz, 14.5 MB |
| Word analysis | Digital Pāḷi Dictionary v0.4.20261026 subset: 89,763 headwords, 753 roots and the word forms of the bundled texts; 99.74% of the canon’s words are known (analyse_passage, offline lookup_pali). server/data/dpd.json.gz, 5.3 MB |
| Works offline | All Pāli reading, citation lookup, PTS and edition page lookup, Pāli search and script conversion |
“Texts” here means the units people cite: a sutta, a verse, a rule, a Khandhaka chapter, an Abhidhamma section. Some collections are counted by verse (Dhammapada) and some by chapter or story.
Sutta Piṭaka: discourses (6,999 texts)
| Collection | Citation | Texts | Grouped | Approximate | English (texts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dīgha Nikāya, long discourses | DN | 34 | 16 | ||
| Majjhima Nikāya, middle-length discourses | MN | 152 | 112 | ||
| Saṃyutta Nikāya, connected discourses | SN | 1,954 | 135 | 56 | 467 |
| Aṅguttara Nikāya, numbered discourses | AN | 2,085 | 677 | 141 | 364 |
| Khuddakapāṭha | Kp / Khp | 9 | 9 | ||
| Dhammapada | Dhp | 449 verses | 423 | 449 (via 26 chapters) | |
| Udāna | Ud | 80 | 80 | ||
| Itivuttaka | Iti | 112 | 109 | ||
| Sutta Nipāta | Snp (Sn) | 73 | 72 | ||
| Vimānavatthu | Vv | 85 | — | ||
| Petavatthu | Pv | 51 | — | ||
| Theragāthā | Thag | 264 | 106 | ||
| Therīgāthā | Thig | 73 | 35 | ||
| Apadāna (Thera and Therī) | Ap | 603 | — | ||
| Buddhavaṃsa | Bv | 29 | — | ||
| Cariyāpiṭaka | Cp | 35 | — | ||
| Jātaka (the verses of the 547 birth stories) | Ja | 547 | — | ||
| Mahāniddesa | Mnd | 16 | — | ||
| Cūḷaniddesa | Cnd | 23 | — | ||
| Paṭisambhidāmagga | Ps | 31 | — | ||
| Milindapañha | Mil | 248 | — | ||
| Nettippakaraṇa | Ne | 37 | — | ||
| Peṭakopadesa | Pe | 9 | — |
Vinaya Piṭaka: monastic discipline (443 texts)
| Part | Citation | Texts | Approximate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhikkhu Vibhaṅga (monks’ rules): Pārājika, Saṅghādisesa, Aniyata, Nissaggiya Pācittiya, Pācittiya, Pāṭidesanīya, Sekhiya, Adhikaraṇasamatha | Bu Pj 1 … Bu As 7 | 228 | 5 |
| Bhikkhunī Vibhaṅga (nuns’ rules) | Bi Pj 5 … Bi As 7 | 142 | 12 |
| Khandhaka (Mahāvagga = Kd 1–10, Cūḷavagga = Kd 11–22) | Kd 1–22, Mv 1–10, Cv 1–12 | 22 | |
| Parivāra | Pvr 1.1 … | 51 | 1 |
Nuns’ rules that are identical to monks’ rules are not repeated in the Pāli, which is why the Bhikkhunī numbering has gaps. No English translation is linked yet.
Abhidhamma Piṭaka: systematic teaching (1,102 texts)
| Book | Citation | Texts | Approximate | English (texts) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhammasaṅgaṇī | Ds | 21 | 2 | |
| Vibhaṅga | Vb | 18 | 2 | |
| Dhātukathā | Dt | 19 | — | |
| Puggalapaññatti | Pp | 20 | — | |
| Kathāvatthu | Kv | 219 | — | |
| Yamaka | Ya | 77 | — | |
| Paṭṭhāna | Paṭṭhāna | 728 | 51 | — |
English is linked for four Abhidhamma texts, all from Ānandajoti Bhikkhu: two parts of the Dhammasaṅgaṇī mātikā and Vibhaṅga 6–7.
English translations
| Source | Links | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu, dhammatalks.org | 1,276 | Current versions of his translations |
| Access to Insight | 1,111 | Ṭhānissaro’s earlier versions (816) and about 25 other translators, among them Maurice Walshe, John D. Ireland, Andrew Olendzki, Acharya Buddharakkhita, Nyanaponika Thera, Piyadassi Thera, Ñāṇamoli Thera and Bhikkhu Bodhi; each page keeps its own licence notice |
| Ānandajoti Bhikkhu, Ancient Buddhist Texts | 153 | Line-by-line Pāli and English (CC BY-SA 3.0): Udāna, Dhammapada chapters, most of the Pārāyanavagga, the Bhikkhunīsaṃyutta, DN 16, several MN, SN and AN suttas, two parts of the Dhammasaṅgaṇī mātikā and Vibhaṅga 6–7. Each link is checked against the Pāli on the page |
A translation is linked only on strong evidence: a matching number and title, a PTS start page that identifies exactly one text, or a confirmed title. When the evidence is ambiguous we leave the text unlinked, so some texts that do have a translation online are not linked yet. A second, content-based pass (#37) places a page only when rare names in the English occur in exactly one nearby Pāli text, or its Pāli title names exactly one; each such link stores its evidence and is audited.
Parallels and cross-references
get_parallels links a text to others in two ways, built offline from the bundled VRI edition (D59). Every link says which kind it is and how it was matched.
- Commentary citations (5,301): the traditional commentary on one text cites another. Most (4,753) are VRI’s own references in brackets, confirmed by finding the quoted words in the cited paragraph; 401 are VRI references with no quotation to check (never used for SN or AN); 147 are suttas named in the commentary whose name, diacritics included, is the title of exactly one text and of no other text’s title or Digital Pāḷi Dictionary sutta name, and whose neighbouring quotation, if any, comes from that text.
- Shared passages (1,516): two canonical texts share a passage word for word. Stock formulae (runs found in more than 4 texts, or built only from common phrases) are left out.
| Collection | Texts | With any link | With a commentary citation | With a shared passage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dīgha Nikāya (DN) | 34 | 34 | 32 | 31 |
| Majjhima Nikāya (MN) | 152 | 148 | 136 | 110 |
| Saṃyutta Nikāya (SN) | 1,954 | 633 | 324 | 444 |
| Aṅguttara Nikāya (AN) | 2,085 | 661 | 323 | 493 |
Many short SN and AN texts have no link: the commentary passes over them, and their shared wording is the stock wording of their series. No link is given rather than a doubtful one. For parallels in Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan texts, each result links to SuttaCentral (link only).
Not included yet
| Missing | Plan |
|---|---|
| Visuddhimagga PTS page citations (“Vism 3”): refused until an openly licensed PTS-page concordance is found | #21 |
| Lao and Lanna checked against a printed edition (VRI publishes none at the pinned commit) and by native readers | #26 |
| English for Vinaya, Abhidhamma and most of the Khuddaka Nikāya | #34 |
| Translations in other languages | #35 |
To regenerate these numbers, see development.md.