psg news

Dear group,

As you probably know, we have a new member. Welcome to the group, Num!
It is good to have you with us. Num, I have uploaded the file of 1687 Pali
roots (p1-rts-7.txt) to the files page which is accessible from the
palistudy home page. It is small (about 39 KB) and in a text format using
the style of writing Pali that I normally use. Anyone else here can also get
a copy of it if desired. Some years ago I typed all the roots listed in H.
Smith's edn. of Aggava.msa's Saddaniti and this list is the most
comprehensive of three such lists available to us. I also have a list of
over 2000 Sanskrit roots which I'm still proofreading and will upload this
as soon as I'm finished.

Jonothan, thank you for posting B. Bodhi's notes on the Sutta passage. I
will give it some study later and perhaps respond with some comments.
His:"[Spk-pt:  because they take it and wander about with it], but cara.na
here possibly means conduct, as in other contexts." indicates to me that
he's not sure of the meaning of 'cara.na' in the passage.

To the group, it has been a week since I posted the last sutta from the
Saddaniti. The next one will be on the niggahiita which I hope to get out
soon. I have found that after starting this group my workload has increased
considerably. There is so much more to respond to and to keep up with but it
has all been very enjoyable and rewarding for me. I hope that you can all
put up with my slow pace and that you're not in any hurry to learn Pali.
Just stick around as I'm pretty sure we'll all become much more
knowledgeable about the Pali language and its texts over the course of time.

For now, the rules and guidelines for psg are the same ones that Jon & Sarah
have worked out for dsg. I would ask that in responding to messages that you
try to remember to trim off the unneccessary portions of the messages.

Best wishes,
Jim