Re: 1916 edition of the Baalaavataara

One piece of "bad" news about the book: as I sat down with it for a few
minutes yesterday, I found it extremely valuable and useful, but, alas, it
is only volume 1, of an unknown number of volumes.  I can compare it to the
e-text of the Pali ang guess how many volumes there are in total, but I'll
have to start snooping around for the rest of the edition.  Again, "Maybe at
the Siam Society they'll have it..." but maybe not.

The Baalaavataara is indeed of Kaccayana's school --although my usual
references on this (Hinuber & Malalasekera) are in a box on the other side
of Bangkok, so I can't look it up at the moment.

This raises a tangental but useful question: is anyone here using the two
volume _The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Pali Literature_ as a reference work
for Pali grammars of antiquity?  If so, is it good enough to justify the
price, or the weight (i.e., lugging it around Thailand)?

E.M.


>
> Dear Eisel,
>
> Welcome to the list and thanks for your interesting report. I have
> never studied the Baalaavataaro but I know it to be an important text
> belonging to the Kaccaayana school. It seems that the early 20th
> century was a very good time for the publication of many Pali
> grammars, most of which are now out of print.
>
> The following is a new book that has been published recently and has a
> section on grammar books:
>
> Peter Skilling and Santi Pakdeekham
> Pali and Vernacular Literature Transmitted in Central and Northern
> Siam August, 2004. lxxxii + 474 pp., 16 figs.
> ISBN 974-13-3150-9. (available from the Pali Text Society)
>
> Best wishes,
> Jim
>
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>> included the invitation to join the list]
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