PS
the Comy reference is PmA 3:676 (CSCD).

Piya

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Piya Tan <dharmafarer@...> wrote:

> Dear Pali friends,
>
> This is a new thread. This is an interesting sentence from the
> Pa.tisa,bhidaa,magga Commentary explaining the lemma "Sabbesaṃ pakkhīnan"
> ti (in the Iddhikathaa of Pm):
>
> Sabbesaṃ pakkhīnan ti sabbesaṃ pakkhijātānaṃ jhānābhiññā vināyeva ākāsena
> gamanaṃ. (Pm 2:213)
>
> "Of all the winged beings" means all those of the nature of have wings,
> going through the air WITHOUT any superknowledge (or direct knowledge) of
> jhana. (Pm 2:212)
>
> I have taken "vināyeva" as VINAA + EVA, translating as "without any".
>
> This is an interesting section of Pm which summarizes all the iddhis into a
> set of 10. I a working on a Sutta study paper of "Miracles."
>
> Any comments are appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Piya Tan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Mahinda Palihawadana <mahipal6@...
> > wrote:
>
>> On 1/16/09, Ong Yong Peng <palismith@... <palismith%40gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear Mahinda and Piya,
>> >
>> > I have another look at CSCD footnotes, and found that there are
>> > several instances where both Ka and Ka.m appears under the same note.
>> > If both Ka and Ka.m refer to Kamboja, then they are very likely to
>> > refer to two different Cambodian editions. I am now wondering if
>> > either of Ka or Ka.m might be a Thai edition in Khmer script or even a
>> > Bangladeshi edition
>>
>> I really do not know at the moment how to resolve this. I will look up
>> the Sinhala editions available to me and see if they can shed any
>> light. Obviously my idea that both Ka and Ka.m refer to Cambodian edd.
>> cannot be right.
>> >
>> > I also come across katthaci as a reference in the CSCD footnotes. I
>> > understand the term to mean 'anywhere', and have no idea why
>> > 'anywhere' is used as a reference. I guess it means 'anywhere' except
>> > CSCD, not sure if I am right.
>>
>> Kattha-ci would mean 'in some places', i.e. in certain
>> editions/sources, in this context.
>>
>>
>
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