Abhidhānappadīpikā

The Abhidhānappadīpikā is a Pali thesaurus composed in the twelfth century by the Sri Lankan grammarian Moggallāna Thera.

The work is a thesaurus or dictionary of synonyms, grouping together the names of a particular thing in verse form for easy memorization.

[1] A commentary was written by a Burmese minister under King Kittisīhasūra around the 14th century.

A paraphrase (sanna) and a subcommentary (ṭīkā) were composed in Sri Lanka.

[2] Abhidhānappadīpikā; or, Dictionary of the Pali language by Vaskaduve Subhuti, Colombo, 1865, A Sinhala script edition with English explanations.