SV: Ubon R. Wat Nanasat / Nanachat

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af nyanatusita
Sendt: 28. september 2005 07:53
Til: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Emne: Re: SV: [palistudy] Re: Ubon R. Wat Nanasat / Nanachat

Dear Ole Pind,

Are you aware that there is a useful work called Syntax of the Cases in the
Pali Nikayas by O.H. de Wijesekera? It was his Ph.d thesis at the University
of London, 1936, and was first published in 1993 by the Postgraduate
Institute of Pali Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. I have found
the book very useful as it gives many examples from Pali, comparisons with
Sanskrit syntax. There is nothing comparable to it as far as I know. I
noticed that scholars like Norman were not aware of it. You could order a
copy from the BPS. 

Thank you so much! However, as I write this reply I am looking at
Wijesekara's book on my bookshelves. It is very good, but oit only deals
with the syntax of the cases; and it is possible to improve her and there on
his description. You are right, it no one kknew about it until recently,
which is a shame.


I can let you know how to order.
It is a good idea to make a new Pali Grammar in the way you suggested.
Did you have a look at the recent Pali grammar made by Thomas Oberlies?

Yes. I wrote a review article of it for Zeitschrift der Deutschen
Morgenländischen Gesellschaft.

It is very expensive.

Yes.

Do you have any suggestions regarding the Comprehensive Table of Pali
Literature that I sent you last month? I would appreciate a copy of the
article on Pali grammarians that you mentioned.

Not yet.I have read through the whole list, but I am desperately trying to
catch up with things left undone because of a broken arm. I have not been
able to work properly for almost three months and I am terribly behind with
everything. SO please forgive me for being slow.


What did you think about the article by Godakumbara on Chappata Jotipala
that I sent you?

It is excellent! I fully agree with his conclusions.

With best wishes,

Yours,

Ole Holten Pind


Yours,
                Bh. Nyanatusita

Ole Holten Pind wrote:

>
>What a travesty of learning! Many monks all over South East Asia are,
>to the best of my knowledge, in need of a modern and adequate education
>in the language of the early Buddhist canon. I have for some years
>contemplated writing a new Paali Grammar, i.e., a real grammar with a
>comprehensive section on syntax, followed by a reader with references
>to the grammar, somewhat along the lines of Lanman's excellent Sanskrit
>Reader. As it is, linguists, who take a look at what MI scholars
>produce, will inevitably get the impression from reading modern Paali
>grammars that Paali is a language without syntax!
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