Re: pali books in sinhalese script from BPS

Dear Ole,

I can give you a more proper answer on Friday after scouring the
shelves of a shop, but for now what I know of that might be of some
interest to you is Smith's Sinhalese-edition of the
Kaccaayanasuttanidesa. I'm not 100% sure that the annotations are
his, since they might be those of a later owner. But that he procured
the book is certain because of the characterstic green binding he
gave it when it was incorporated in the UU library collection. Beyond
providing Senart's numbering, the annotations consist mostly of
sporadic identifications of quotations, simply marking certain
passages (presumably as 'interesting'), and beginning a list of
references to other grammatical works and authors such as Sadd, Rup,
Mogg, Vimalabuddhi etc. It's not really a lot of material, and
probably nothing that's invaluable.

I also have a Baalaavataara that he owned, but I suspect this
abridged edition was too much 'for the baalas' because it doesn't
appear that he even read it. The only reason I know he ordered it is
that the invoice slip is preserved from Luzac and Company in London
who charged him 2 shillings and 6 pence for the book in 1936 (and
took 4 pence for postage).

I also have a 1 volume 'decorational' raamaayana with his signature
and a number of note-slips (on metre in particular) but these appear
to have been put there by a more recent owner (K.H.)

Apart from what might be on the market, there are probably a number
of his Pali related books remaining uncatalogued in the dept library
at UU (or rather, in boxes in the dept's new rooms). There might be
interesting annotations there to be found. I've spoken with G.G-E.
about possibly going through those boxes and cataloguing them. If
that turns out to be possible (which I expect it is) I could watch
out for marginalia that might be helpful.

best regards,

/Rett