[palistudy] Re: moderator's note

Ven. Pandita enquires:

>I would like to know the identity of the unnamed Burmese monk in the
>following quotation from the Editorial Note of Saddhammappakaasinii
>(Commentary on Mahaaniddesa), published by PTS. It was an Indian
>professor's writing:

You mean of course: (Commentary on Pa.tisambhidaamagga).

>    " The source to which my vv.ll. footnotes refer are:
>
>    B = Burmese transcript made by a Burmese monk residing in London to
>learn English, but left penniless by            his patron, and employed
>by the P.T.S
>
>    BM =  vv.ll. quoted  by the transcriber of B from a MS., also lent by
>P.T.S., which he is pleased to call Muula."
>
>
>I would like to know who was the Burmese monk who made the Burmese
>transcript B, even though the editor he had helped failed to record his
>name.  It is a missing detail in the history of Burmese contributions to
>the international Pali studies.
>

I have always assumed this to be Ven. U Thittila. He certainly took
some employment as librarian in the Buddhist Society at one point.
But I have no definite evidence.

Lance Cousins