update

Dear members,

Just wanted to let you know that for most of this month I won't be
contributing much to our ongoing study of Kaccayana. This is because I
will be having my first cataract surgery on May 12 and will be away
from my Pali library for about two weeks starting next weekend. The
surgery date came much sooner than I had anticipated. Hopefully, the
surgery will be a success and that my eyesight will be greatly
improved as a result.

I have been working on the two commentaries on Kaccayana called the
Nyaasa and the Suttaniddesa which involves transcribing the first few
pages from each and then to try and understand what it all means and
then attempt a translation. I would like to incorporate these two
texts into our study of Kaccayana's grammar in addition to some
fragmentary passages from the Kaccaayana-va.n.nanaa. I'm still going
to try and get the full text of the latter. I have also done some work
on a summary of the six derivations of 'se.t.tho'.

Another name for the Nyaasa text is Mukhamattadiipanii. Does anyone
know off-hand what the meaning of 'mukhamatta-' might be here?

Best wishes and a happy Wesak to you all!

Jim