Thanks for the input Ria.
I'll have to learn more about flexions and Pali rules before I can
confidently enter better search strings.
-Frank

On 1/5/2010 1:08 PM, grasje wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear Frank,
>
> "empty hut" appears in the satipatthana sutta as well, then as
> su~n~naagaaragato. In the MN this word appears 7 times.
> If I skip the ending "ato", DPR finds suññÄ?gÄ?ragatÄ?pi (2) and
> su~n~naagaaragatopi (1) as well
> In all situations the word is preceded by "foot of a tree".
>
> The SN rends suññÄ?gÄ?ragatÄ?naá¹f (1) and su~n~naagaaragato (15)
>
> There might be other flexions that I am not aware of. This is as far
> as my Pali goes.
>
> The -pe- repeats are not written out as complete text in the DPR, as
> far as I know, so you might want to check those in an other way. If
> you can do that on the plain pali text, here is how you can get it all
> in your wordprocessor:
>
> The whole SN is in 5 files on your computer. The files are in the
> directory
> Program files\DPR\DPR\xml\s1m.xml ; S2m ---S5m. The S1a files are the
> commentaries.
> If you want to open the files directly it is better first to make a
> copy and save that copy in another directory. DPR will refuse to read
> files that have been saved by a normal wordprocessor. You can open the
> copy in a standard wordprocessor as long as you won't try to use the
> same file in your browser afterwards. The wordprocessor will process
> all the HTML-code and convert it to quite readable Velthuis, but still
> mixed with some stuff I don't understand.
>
> BTW the directory DPPN contains the dictionary of pali proper names.
> CSS contains the layout of the pages, etc contains the dictionaries,
> images contains images and js contains javascript, the actions
> happening when you click on one of the buttons. XML contains the
> tipitaka and the commentaries.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ria Glas
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Pali%40yahoogroups.com>, frank
> <fcckuan@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Rosa! I had the impression the phrase was even more frequent
> than
> > that, but it's probably because there are certain key suttas such as [M
> > 152] that I tend to re-read frequently, resulting in that impression.
> > Playing around this morning I just realized DPR can do a much wider
> > search than only the current window/sutta. Doing the widest search for
> > "empty hut" in DPR results in:
> > Search Results for *su~n~naagaaraani: * DN:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfDN')> 0, MN:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfMN')> 4, SN:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfSN')> 7, AN:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfAN')> 4, KN:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfKN')> 0, Vin:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfVin')> 0, Abhi:
> > <javascript:go_anchor('searchb','sbfAbhi')> 0
> >
> > The lack of results in Samyutta presumably is due to the "..." sutta
> > repetitions that are ellipsed out. I manually looked through the ending
> > page of each of the 34 DN suttas (maurice walshe version) yesterday,
> > and confirmed the lack of the phrase in DN. Your search results below
> > found 3 occurences in MN, DPR reported 4, I'm going to look into that
> > discrepancy right now and get back to you guys later today or
> tomorrow...
> >
> > -Frank
> >
> >
> >
>
>



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