# Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka Pāḷi (VRI)
> Complete Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka (Sixth Buddhist Council) Pali Canon texts, commentary, sub-commentary, and dictionaries.

## Overview
- **Corpus**: Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana Tipiṭaka (Vipassana Research Institute / CSCD edition).
- **Total Canonical Books**: 217 books.
- **Total Chapters**: 2,695 chapters across 520,000+ paragraphs.
- **Languages / Scripts**: Pāḷi in Roman (Latin with full IAST diacritics) + 16 Asian & historic scripts.
- **Canonical Piṭakas**:
  1. **Vinaya Piṭaka** (Monastic Rules): Pārājikapāḷi, Pācittiyapāḷi, Mahāvaggapāḷi, Cūḷavaggapāḷi, Parivārapāḷi, plus commentaries (Aṭṭhakathā) and sub-commentaries (Ṭīkā).
  2. **Sutta Piṭaka** (Discourses): Dīgha Nikāya, Majjhima Nikāya, Saṃyutta Nikāya, Aṅguttara Nikāya, Khuddaka Nikāya (Dhammapada, Sutta Nipāta, Jātaka, etc.), plus Aṭṭhakathā and Ṭīkā.
  3. **Abhidhamma Piṭaka** (Higher Doctrine): Dhammasaṅgaṇī, Vibhaṅga, Dhātukathā, Puggalapaññatti, Kathāvatthu, Yamaka, Paṭṭhāna, plus Aṭṭhakathā and Ṭīkā.
  4. **Añña Texts**: Post-canonical grammars, Visuddhimagga, chronicles (Vaṃsa), and commentaries.

## Key Reading Links
- [Home & Canonical Navigation](https://tipitakapali.org/)
- [Full Catalog & AI Documentation](https://tipitakapali.org/llms-full.txt)
- [XML Sitemap Index](https://tipitakapali.org/sitemap.xml)
- [OpenAPI for AI Tools](https://tipitakapali.org/openapi.json)
- [AI Plugin Manifest](https://tipitakapali.org/.well-known/ai-plugin.json)

## Reading URLs & Multi-Script Syntax
- **Default Roman Book**: `https://tipitakapali.org/book/[book_code]` (e.g. `https://tipitakapali.org/book/s0101m.mul` for Dīgha Nikāya Sīlakkhandhavagga)
- **Multi-Script Book**: `https://tipitakapali.org/book/[script_code].[book_code]` (e.g. `https://tipitakapali.org/book/hi.s0101m.mul` for Devanagari, `https://tipitakapali.org/book/si.s0101m.mul` for Sinhala, `https://tipitakapali.org/book/my.s0101m.mul` for Myanmar, `https://tipitakapali.org/book/thai.s0101m.mul` for Thai)
- **Default Roman Chapter**: `https://tipitakapali.org/book/[book_code]/[chapter_number]` (e.g. `https://tipitakapali.org/book/s0101m.mul/2` for Chapter 2)
- **Multi-Script Chapter**: `https://tipitakapali.org/book/[script_code].[book_code]/[chapter_number]` (e.g. `https://tipitakapali.org/book/hi.s0101m.mul/2` for Devanagari Chapter 2)
- **Specific Paragraph**: `https://tipitakapali.org/book/[book_code]#para-[number]` (e.g. `https://tipitakapali.org/book/s0502m.mul#para-1` for Dhammapada Verse 1)

### Supported 16 Pāḷi Script Codes:
- `si`: **Sinhala** (සිංහල) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/si.s0101m.mul`
- `hi`: **Devanagari / Hindi** (देवनागरी) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/hi.s0101m.mul`
- `thai`: **Thai** (ไทย) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/thai.s0101m.mul`
- `laos`: **Lao** (ລາວ) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/laos.s0101m.mul`
- `my`: **Myanmar / Burmese** (မြန်မာ) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/my.s0101m.mul`
- `km`: **Khmer** (ខ្មែរ) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/km.s0101m.mul`
- `beng`: **Bengali** (বাংলা) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/beng.s0101m.mul`
- `gurm`: **Gurmukhi** (ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/gurm.s0101m.mul`
- `tham`: **Tai Tham / Lanna** (ᨲ᩠ᩅᩫᨾᩮᩥᩬᨦ) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/tham.s0101m.mul`
- `guja`: **Gujarati** (ગુજરાતી) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/guja.s0101m.mul`
- `telu`: **Telugu** (తెలుగు) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/telu.s0101m.mul`
- `kann`: **Kannada** (ಕನ್ನಡ) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/kann.s0101m.mul`
- `mala`: **Malayalam** (മലയാളം) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/mala.s0101m.mul`
- `brah`: **Brahmi** (𑀩𑁆𑀭𑀸𑀳𑁆𑀫𑀻) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/brah.s0101m.mul`
- `tibt`: **Tibetan** (བོད་སྐད།) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/tibt.s0101m.mul`
- `cyrl`: **Cyrillic** (кириллица) → `https://tipitakapali.org/book/cyrl.s0101m.mul`
*(Note: Roman/Latin is the default and uses the standard URL without a prefix)*

## Public Static JSON API (Edge CDN 0ms)
- Navigation Tree: `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/tree`
- Books List: `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/books`
- Book Details & Initial Chapters: `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/book/[book_code]`
- Chapter HTML: `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/book/[book_code]/chapter/[chapter_index]`
- Book Table of Contents: `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/book/[book_code]/toc`
- Mūla-Aṭṭhakathā-Ṭīkā Cross Matrix: `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/mat`

## AI Tool-Use: Canonical Dictionary & Search (Direct VPS — no Worker hop)
> Canonical base for AI agents: `https://api.tipitakapali.org` (CORS `*`, `Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400`)

- **DPD Primary Lookup (recommended first):** `GET https://api.tipitakapali.org/api/dict/lookup?w=mett%C4%81&dict=dpd`
  - Example live: `curl "https://api.tipitakapali.org/api/dict/lookup?w=mett%C4%81&dict=dpd"` → `{word, counts:{dpd:2}, dpd:[{word,html}]}`
- **Secondary Dictionaries (PTS, ABD, PSD, Sanskrit, Splitter):** `GET https://api.tipitakapali.org/api/dict/lookup?w=mett%C4%81&dict=others`
  - Returns `{counts:{pts,abd,psd,sans,splitter}, pts:[], abd:[], psd:[], sans:[], splitter:[]}`
- **All at once:** `GET https://api.tipitakapali.org/api/dict/lookup?w=mett%C4%81&dict=all` or `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/dict/lookup?w=mett%C4%81&dict=all`
- **Inflection:** `GET https://api.tipitakapali.org/api/dict/inf?w=declension_mett%C4%81_1` → `{word, html}`
- **Full-Text Search:** `GET https://api.tipitakapali.org/api/search?q=anatta&pitaka=sutta&mat=mula&limit=50`
- Params: `w` (Pāḷi word, Velthuis or Unicode, `ṁ→ṃ` normalized), `dict` (`dpd`|`others`|`all`|`pts`|`abd`|`psd`|`sans`|`splitter`), `d=yes` for splitter.
- No auth, `CORS *`, `GET` preferred (POST also via `{w,dict}` JSON).

## Legacy Edge Proxies (also work, but direct VPS is faster)
- `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/dict/lookup?w=[word]&dict=dpd` → proxied to VPS
- `GET https://tipitakapali.org/api/search?q=[query]` → proxied to VPS