SV: Dual or Vinaya Idiom?

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Sendt: 6. november 2005 01:59
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Emne: [palistudy] Dual or Vinaya Idiom?

Dear Pali Group,

Aggava.msa also noticed it in the Saddaniiti and categorically refuses to
take it as an example of the dual in Pali. I made a tentative translation of
his arguments  which I reproduce below.
Maybe some members of the group have something to say about the matter.

Dear bhante,

A look at the evidence tells me that the forms in antaa as opposed to those
in anto no doubt are younger, as the vinaya prose with the exception of the
patimokkha in general is. These forms reflect the transition from stems in
ant, mant, vant to thematised a stems, a development that is not uncommon in
the Pali canon. One finds, for example, aayasmante acc. pl. next to
aayasmantaa in some of the examples, although from a declensional point of
view one would expect acc. pl. to be aayasmanto. Aggavamsa, I believe was
right in rejecting the possibility that there be instances of the dual in
canonical prose.

With best regards,

Ole Pind