Litttle-known Lao Pali Grammar

The following quote is from an article by H. Saddhatissa:

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The _Chaturaasiitidhammakkhandhasahassasa.mva.n.nanaa_ is ... a composite
work in Pali and Lao.  A fragment of it, the _Akkharagi.n.thi_, constitutes
a grammar, including a chapter on _sadda_.  The bulk of the manuscript,
however, is taken up with an explanation of the division of the canonical
texts into 84,000 sections.
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If this sounds familiar to anyone, I would be interested to know more.  The
only footnote to the above quote is as follows: "_Vide_ Finot's description
(BEFEO, XVII, 5, pg. 76)" --i.e., the bulletin of the "Ecole Francaise
d'Extreme Orient", I suppose.

E.M.

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