Dear Bhante,

> Re the Chinese tipitaka, i know little, but have heard that the T
> Koreana is more primitive technologically than the CBETA.

One problem is that the text seems to be presented as a kind of GIF -- it
would be very difficult to manipulate the text editorially or to do
searches, especially as they have reproduced all the odd variant characters
the original woodblocks used.

> Regarding the Arthaviniscaya, yes i have seen Samtani's edition, but
> since i know no Devanagari, i was limited to reading Samtani's
> notes. If you had a version in Roman, i'd love to see it.

Alas, there is no romanized version. If you look at pp144-145 of the recent
translation by N Samtani, "Gathering the Meanings", that was published by
Dharma Publications, you might get some idea of the content. If you are
still interested, I'll transcribe it for you.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge