Re: Dual or Vinaya Idiom?
From: Jim Anderson
Message: 1479
Date: 2005-11-05
Note to the group: sorry about the duplicate posting of Christian's
message. That was a server glitch, not that I posted it twice.
Hi Rett,
> So far I believe Jim's answer sounds like a very likely explanation,
that the two forms reflect different strata of Pali that have come
together in one text, possibly due to later editing. But I'm looking
forwards to any other ideas that might come up.
That should be "Ole's answer" not mine. Like you, I find the page-long
extract from the Saddaniiti hard to follow right off the bat. The page
reference to Smith's edition is 92,18-93,13. See also pp. 151,26-152,3
and the special rule for this at Sd 389 (pp. 665-6). I will need time
to study all this material and I think I'll type out and post the rule
to the group as the Suttamaalaa volume is not available on the CSCD
disk. We can take our time going over this problem and the arguments
for and against 'ayasmantaa' being in the dual.
Best wishes,
Jim
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