Re: Sabhc-d 1 (varavaadina.m)

Dear Members (and Ven. Dhammanando),

I was away for a week and have gotten behind in my contributions to
our study of the Saddatthabhedacintaa with its diipanii. I will only
be here for a little less than a month before I have to go away again
for two weeks including a week in Toronto. I have booked a room for
June 15-22 at the summer residence of Trinity College, U of T which is
just a block away from Canada's largest library.

I would now like to set aside our discussions on
_saddatthabhedavaadiina.m pavara.m_ and its commentary and move on to
the commentary _varavaadina.m_ (the Speaker of the Excellent). I did
start researching it some weeks ago but much still remains to be done
before I'm ready to post. Because the title of the text is rather long
for the subject line, I think it would be better to use an
abbreviation. Unfortunately the CPD does not provide any standard for
these two works so we will have to come up with our own. I propose the
following:

Sabhc for Saddatthabhedacintaa
Sabhc-d for Saddatthabhedacintaadiipanii

I have reproduced, below, the portion of the text (originally posted
by Ven. Dhammanando on Mar. 30) that I will resume working on and
hopefully will have something to post soon.

Best wishes, Jim

> I. GANTHAARAMBHAKATHAA

> 1.
> saddatthabhedavaadiina.m pavara.m varavaadina.m
> abhivaadiya saddatthabhedacintaa'bhidhiiyate.

[...]

> *varavaadinan* ti buddha.m. buddhoti vara.m nibbaana.m
> vadati siilenaati varavaadii. vuttanti asa`nkheyyaani
> naamaani. sagu.nena mahesinoti.
>
> *varan* ti ca nibbaana.m adhippeta.m. vutta~nhi varo
> vara~n~nuuti ettha ca vara~n~nuuti nibbaana~n~nuu.
> nibbaana~nhi sabbadhammaana.m uttamatthena varanti.
>
> athavaa *sadda ... pavara.m varavaadinan* ti dvaya.mpi
> visesana.m. visesitabba.m pana buddhanti ajjhaaharitabba.m.
> buddhasseva pavaraana.m atisayapavarattaa vaadiina~nca
> atisayavadittaa.