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Chulachomklao of Siam Pāḷi Tipiṭaka :
A Digital Preservation Edition 2008

1. Siam-Script to Roman-Script Transliteration of Pāḷi Sounds
This feature shows the transliteration of Pāḷi sounds into Siam and Roman scripts. This information appears in columns in the left and right-hand margins of all 16,248 pages (see example on the left page) ก์ ข์ ค์... k, kh, g... [k], [kʰ], [ɡ]...

2. The World Tipiṭaka in Roman Script
This feature shows the full title of the Roman-script Edition the structure (see 3) and text (see 5) of which are referenced in the Digital Preservation Edition.

3. Comparative Tipiṭaka Structures & Titles in Roman Script
This feature provides a general comparative structures of the Tipiṭaka in the Siam script and Roman script editions of the Pāḷi text. This information appears in the lower left-hand corner of each page. 3

4. e-Tipiṭaka Quotation Number
This feature provides a system of electronic links for obtaining digital information about the Siam-script and Roman-script editions of the Tipiṭaka on the Internet at www.tipitakaquotation.net. This feature also allows Internet users to copy and print information with ease from any of 118,280 paragraphs of the Roman-script edition in a variety of media formats.

5. Examples of Parallel Corpus in Siam-Script/Roman-Script
This feature helps to compare Pāḷi sounds in Siam and Roman scripts and appears in the lower right-hand corner of each of the 16,248 pages.

6. Uniform Resource Locater (URL) of the Siam-Script Archives
This feature allows Internet users to search the digital archive using imaging technology on each of the 16,248 pages of the Siam-Script Digital Preservation Edition at www.tipitakahall.net.

7. Roman-Script Transliteration of Pāḷi & Pāḷi Transcription to IPA
This feature shows the transliteration of Pāḷi sounds into Roman scripts and Pāḷi International Phonetic Alphabets (Pāḷi IPA). This information appears in columns in the left and right-hand margins of all 16,248 pages in the Digital Preservation Edition.

8. Endnotes of the Tipiṭaka
This feature contains a total of 7,414 variant readings between the Siam-script Tipiṭaka and Roman-script versions. Previously printed as footnotes in the original manuscript from the B.E. 2500 (1957) Great International Tipiṭaka Council Edition in Burmese script, here they have been newly proof-read, edited and printed at the end of the book.

9. Index of Pāḷi Words in Roman script
This feature lists a total of 109,629 Pāḷi words in Roman-script edition and identifies their location in the Siam-script edition. The indexes appear at the end of the book.