SV: 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.

Dear Rett,

<<Smith's copy of the Kaccaayanasuttaniddesa would be very interesting to
me. My old sinhalese copy is coming apart and some pages are difficult to
read. I guess I have identified most of the quotations - there are quite a
lot from Kacc-v.>>

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).

<<Very amusing. It is not an important work. Nonetheless, indirectly is
provides invaluable information. It is, of course, primarily based upon
Kaccaayana.>>

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

Many thanks for the information. I am looking forward to whatever
information you can provide on Smiths library and the books he owned that
might still be available.

Best regards

Ole Pind


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