Re: some thoughts on studying the texts

Hi Jaran,

This is just a quick response as I'm about to go away for five days.
By the grammatical texts on the CSCD I'm referring to the ones written
entirely in Pali and not da Silva's Pali Primer. I have gone over
about the first 120 of Kaccayana's grammatical suttas comparing the
Burmese version on the CSCD with the Sinhalese one from SLTP and have
found fewer errors for the Burmese one which I consider to be more
accurate. But the Sinhalese version can still be useful as it contains
2 extra suttas and there were several cases where it had correctly
spelled a word the Burmese had mispelt. Yes, by all means,
continue to use the CSCD disk as I find it to be fairly reliable. The
Tipitaka and its commentaries tend to be in better condition than the
remaining Pali texts on the disk. The kind of errors I'm referring to
are generally ones made by typists who may not have too good a
knowledge of Pali.

Best wishes,
Jim

> Hi Jim:
>
> I have talked briefly with Piya Tan in Singapore. He also said that
> CSCD has a lot of errors. Based on FAQ on VRI website, it contains
> about 2% error.
>
> When you say grammatical texts, are you referring to the Scriptures
> or the accompanying 'Pali Primer' in Help section? If it is the
> former, how do you mean: wrong declension, tense, conjugations
..etc?
> I have been using CSCD for my Pali self-study with Warder. Should I
> continue to us it or find another source.
>
> Best Regards,
> jaran