Re: suttas 3-6: vowels & consonants

Sarah,

>jim,
>
>thanks for the Pali & other responses...the one from
>dsg, I'll follow up there when I have time....When you
>said PED & others follow the Sanskrit order, that
>clarified the confusion at the end of the
>alphabet...it's good to get the groundwork cleared
>while we have the chance....

By the Sanskrit order of letters I should qualify this by saying that this
is the order used in modern Sanskrit dictionaries (noticeably
Monier-Williams'). The consonant .l is not found in classical Sanskrit but
it does occur in Vedic. There is a vowel .l (I think properly written .lr)
that might get confused with the consonant .l but they are so rare that you
don't need to be concerned about it unless you decide to take up the study
of the Vedic language in addition to Pali. I haven't yet seen a layout of
the order of Sanskrit letters according to the old traditional Sanskrit
grammars. I have Panini but there's no layout there except for Shiva's
aphorisms which are used for a different purpose.

>Amara, I can see you're going to be teacher's pet at
>the front of class in no time.....keep it up!

Yes, Amara, keep it up!

>Sarah
>
>p.s. personally I like palistudygroup (psg) to match
>dhammastudygroup (dsg), but some might say I'm biased!!

Actually, the official name of the group is The Pali Study Group. The
username: palistudy is just a simplified name for convenience. I find that
putting a long tag name on the subject line leaves the subject/topic portion
less visible in my email window. In abbreviated form we could refer to this
group as psg in our messages just like we do dsg.

Jim
p.s. I still have to answer Amara's message but I don't know if I'll have
enough time for it tonight, if not, I'll get it out tomorrow. Right now, I'm
going to go and sit in front of the blazing fire and think.