Hi Stephen,

>
>The significance of syllabic count in Pali dvandvas etc is even greater than
>mere metrical considerations. Try and get a copy of Mark Allon's detailed
>and illuminating study of this subject -- my copy is buried somewhere here
>at home so I cannot give you the full reference. Maybe Dr Pind can help.

Thanks for the reference. This is an area i didn't even know existed
just a few weeks ago. Does the following sound right? (It's one of
only two hits I turned up as being loanable in Sweden).

Allon, Mark
Style and function : a study of the dominant stylistic features of
the prose portions of Pali canonical sutta texts and their mnemonic
function / Mark Allon
förlag/år: Tokyo : International Institute for Buddhist Studies,
International College for Advanced Buddhist Studies, 1997
omfång: 394 s.

best regards,

/Rett