Thank-,ou. I very much appreciate your contribution to the discussion
of Sd 868 and the time and effort you have taken to investigate
further with the help of the Ruupasiddhi. I think you've dealt
adequately with the difficulties of the wording in the sutta athough
questions still remain in my mind about 'ekaabhidhaane'. But enough
has been said for now and it is time to set aside these lingering
questions for later. It does seem though that many (if not all) the
grammatical suttas present some degree of difficulty. The next 3
suttas relate to the personal endings as well which I have started to
look at but here again I'm running into trouble with the term
'tulyaadhikara.ne' just like with 'ekaabhidhaane'.
Jim
<< The analysis of 'ekaabhidhaane' as "ekatobhidhāne kātabbe" (when a
unified
statement has to be made) clears up the problem as regards that word.
The idea of constancy of tense cannot really be got out of 'eka' in
'ekaabhidhaane'. I think it is a projection of the idea of oneness
from
person to tense. Its necessity, however, is apparent in it being
endorsed by
Buddhappiya the erudite author of Ruupasiddhi of the Kaccaayana
tradition.. >>