Re: update

Dear Jim,
thank you. How shall we get this info to Pali yahoo list?
I could not find in the PTS catalogue: H. Smith's edition of the
Saddaniiti
Nina.
op 09-01-2004 01:08 schreef Jim Anderson op jimanderson_on@...:

> Dear Yong Peng,
>
> Thanks for responding! The three most important Pali grammars to keep
> in mind are: Kaccaayanavyaakara.na (the earliest one), Saddaniiti, &
> Moggallaanavyaakara.na. Except for the third volume (suttamaala) of
> the Saddaniiti, all are available on the CSCD disk or from
> tipitaka.org. The first and last can also be found in the grammar.zip
> file from SLTP. Two of the three Kaccaayanavyaakara.na texts I'm using
> for our study are from these two sources while the remaining one is a
> printed Burmese copy I have which is practically identical to the CSCD
> version.
>
> As far as I can tell, there are very few old Pali grammars printed in
> Roman characters. One of them, of course, is H. Smith's edition of the
> Saddaniiti now available from the Pali Text Society after being out of
> print for some time. I understand that O. Pind is preparing a new
> edition of Kaccayana's grammar and there is E. Senart's 1871 edition
> of this text. I only have 4 complete printed Pali grammars in my
> collection and wish I had many more but it is not easy to find exactly
> where one can buy such books. I have been making some enquiries about
> where to buy them in India and Sri Lanka and will let you know if I
> get lucky. I think the best places to look are in India, Burma, Sri
> Lanka, and Thailand. I'm sure their texts won't be in Roman letters
> but I'm willing to learn new scripts if necessary as I already can
> read Pali in the Devanagari and Burmese scripts.
>
> A future project could be to compile a comprehensive list of these old
> Pali grammars and other related linguistic treatises with detailed
> information about their contents, relationship to other texts,
> printing history, availability, and so on. The CSCD has 20 of these
> texts and the Critical Pali Dictionary has quite a long list of them
> in its bibliography.
>
>