Which niddesa?, etc.

Hi Jim,

Re: the Niddesa:

> Thank-you for posting the excerpt from your introduction to Kaccaayana's
> grammar. Could you clarify what the Sutta-Niddesa refers to in the
> following...

It's the commentary on the Sutta-Nipata (included in the K.N.) that he's
referring to; and I checked the title against Hinuber, as I recall, but
perhaps I'm "going one hyphen too far".  I'll double check against the
possibility of an error --as you mention.  I realise that the
context/content here might seem to lend itself to a "Nidd." on Kacc. --but
E.J. Thomas was actually talking about the lists of synonymns (etc.) in the
commentary to the Sutta-Nipata, and other "crude" grammatical analysis in
that text.  Anyway, if you read the next paragraph after the one in
question, you'll see that Thomas states that Kacc. is a late text written in
Sri Lanka --and that the Nidd. in question is very early.  Thus, it would be
impossible for him to maintain that the Nidd. (_qua_ commentary on Kacc, by
Chapata) is earlier than Kaccayan; he's talking about the Nidd. (_qua_
commentary on S.-N.).

E.M.

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