# Pali Canon citation index

Version 2.1.0. 8544 texts.

Files:

- `citation-index.json`: one record per text with its VRI book and paragraphs, PTS reference and English translation links.
- `citation-index.csv`: the same, one row per text (multi-valued cells joined with " | "). Columns: id, citation, title, pitaka, collection, kind, approximate, vri_book, vri_file, vri_paragraphs, pts, pts_volume, pts_page, pts_end_page, members, english_inherited_from, english_count, english_urls, english_translators, english_references, english_translation_ids, english_licenses.

## Source and licence

Pāli edition: Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka (VRI), https://github.com/VipassanaTech/tipitaka-xml at commit 2d134ff9ef60f70a1eb03c9370580228811a3070.
Attribution: Vipassana Research Institute (VRI), Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka, www.tipitaka.org. Terms: Made freely available by VRI for non-commercial use with attribution.

This index maps citation IDs to locations in the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka (Vipassana Research Institute, VRI) and to English translation pages. It contains no scripture text and no translation text: only IDs, Pāli titles, paragraph numbers, PTS page references, translator names and URLs. The Pāli titles and page markers come from the VRI edition, which VRI makes freely available for non-commercial use with attribution. Translation pages belong to their publishers and keep their own licences: dhammatalks.org (Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu) is CC BY-NC 4.0; Ancient Buddhist Texts (Ānandajoti Bhikkhu) is CC BY-SA 3.0 (share-alike); Access to Insight licences vary by page: each link carries its licence code (`license`) and readable name (`license_name`) in the JSON, and the CSV lists the readable names in `english_licenses`. Do not sell this data or content reached through it. Citation numbering follows the public scheme also used by SuttaCentral; no SuttaCentral content is included.

## Licence labels on translation links

Each link's `license` code (JSON) and its readable name (`license_name` in the JSON, `english_licenses` in the CSV):

- `CC BY-NC 4.0` (dhammatalks.org): CC BY-NC 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- `CC-BY-NC` (Access to Insight): CC BY-NC (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial): the page states the version (4.0 on the pages checked). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
- `BPS` (Access to Insight): BPS free-distribution terms (Buddhist Publication Society): copies free of charge, reprints of no more than 50 copies, derivatives marked as such, licence text included; otherwise all rights reserved.
- `ATI_DEPRECATED` (Access to Insight): Access to Insight free-distribution licence (older, not Creative Commons): copies free of charge, derivatives marked as such, licence text included; otherwise all rights reserved.
- `CC BY-SA 3.0` (Ancient Buddhist Texts (Ānandajoti Bhikkhu)): CC BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported): the site's Copyright Notice gives 3.0 Unported, its page footers link 4.0; share-alike, credit Ānandajoti Bhikkhu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Each Access to Insight page carries its own full licence notice, which governs. Read it before reusing a page.

Software: MIT (https://github.com/DaniilKi/pali-canon-claude/blob/main/LICENSE). Details: https://github.com/DaniilKi/pali-canon-claude/blob/main/THIRD_PARTY.md