RE: Lampang acquisitions: Kaccaayana

Dear Bhante Yuttadhammo and Eisel,

>  > I have no idea what the reason for "byaa-" being used in place of
>  > "vyaa-" might be; ....Is this a "standard variation"?

>I don't know much, but I thought that changing 'vy' to 'by' was indeed
>common sandhi, e.g. "byaapaada" = "vyaapaada".
>

In Senart's Kaccaayana edition, in the vutti text, vya~njana is
consistently written bya~njana (at least in the Sandhikappa, which is
where I looked). I've seen it a number of other places as well. The
PED even has entries for bya- initials, usually referring to the
corresponding vya- entries. I've just accepted it without knowing the
reason behind it.

best regards,

/Rett