Re: kaccaayanappakara.na

Dear Jim,
Thank you very much, this is most interesting and I shall print it out to
keep it.
In my preface to the Guide they say, tradition says... MahaaKaccayana, but
modern scholars reject this. But these scholars have not read the Co to the
Apadana, I think.
I wonder whether you could forward this to Pali Yahoo, since it is important
material about the tradition.
Nina.

op 20-05-2003 17:20 schreef Jim Anderson op jimanderson_on@...:
  However, I have done some
> investigation and found that, according to the Theravada tradition,
> the author of the grammar is indeed the great Kaccayana who lived at
> the time of the Buddha. According to Buddhaghosa's commentary on the
> Apadana, Mahaakaccaana (another spelling) expounded the
> Kaccaayanappakara.na, Mahaaniruttippakara.na, and the Nettippakara.na
> in the midst of the assembly and this led the Buddha to declare him
> foremost in analyzing in detail what is spoken in brief (see the quote
> below).