Re: Study of Pali

Hello Nina,

While you're waiting to hear from Dan, I thought I'd let you know that
I haven't forgotten about our palistudy group. I arrived back at my
cabin on July 28th but will soon be leaving again on Wednesday to meet
Khun Sujin and Amara in Niagara Falls on Friday. I should be back here
by Monday.

I still intend to get back to you on the 'bhavata.nha' thread as well
as several other ones. I ordered and received some new books from PTS.
I now have M. Cone's A Dictionary of Pali, Part I, a-kh which I think
is quite a good dictionary and recommended. It is more difficult to
locate entry-words in this dictionary as there are no headers at the
top of the pages. I have prepared an index to make it easier to locate
words. [If anyone would like a copy of this index which can be printed
on one sheet of paper, please send me a request offlist.] I also got
V. Perniola's Pali Grammar which I don't recommend. I now have Vol.
I-III of Sariputta's Anguttaranikaaya.tiikaa, ed. P. Pecenko. I
compared the sections on the first two Pabhassarasuttas (AN 49 & 50)
to those I sent you and was surprised to find that the subcommentary
is almost identical to the one on the Burmese CSCD disk (the only
difference I could find was a 'kilesenti' instead of 'kilissanti'. I
had mistakenly assumed that the CSCD Anguttara-tika was that of
Dhammapaala. However, the tikas on the first three nikaayas on the
disk belong to Dhammapaala. It seems that much of his tika on AN is
now lost and replaced by Sariputta's. I only know of an old incomplete
Ms in the National Library, Rangoon which cover only the first three
nipaatas and that would include the subcommentary on AN I.49-52.

I hope to make more contributions to psg in the near future when I'm
less distracted. I think I must be suffering from Amara-vikkhepa
(constant distraction). Actually, according to Cone's dictionary, the
term means '(constant) equivocation'.

Best wishes,

Jim

> Hi Dan, I hope you had a nice stay in your log cabin. I hope you did
not
> forget your Pali. How is Warder coming along?
> Best wishes from
> Nina.



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