Re: pali, pali and pali

Dear Teng Kee,

Thanks for these helpful comments. Is there much difference
between them? Maybe you could give one or two examples of
interest (just if it's convenient and you have them to hand).

Thanks again,

Sarah

--- In palistudy@..., Ong Teng Kee <ongtkee@...> wrote:
> dear Sarah,
>
> No one will know which reading is the original one
> .They copy it from each other sometimes.Some palm
> leaves of sinhala script may not be sinhala origin but
> just a copy from thai or burmese palm leaves.many tika
> in sinhala palm leaves are just a copy from burmese
> script.I agree with K.norman that lanna thai(chiengmai
> /laos )palm leaves give the most original
> reading.Bhikkhu bodhi is very lazy for his samyutta
> tran because he did not use at all cambodia,laos
> ,lanna thai and central thai manuscripts.
>