Variant reading
From: Stephen Hodge
Message: 1558
Date: 2005-11-29
Dear Friends,
For those interested in textual minutiae, I have recenly noted the following
textual variation. In the string "puññaabhisandaa kusalaabhisandaa
sukhassaahaaraa", found, inter alia, in SN 55.31-33 abhisanda etc and
several places in AN, working back from Chinese and Tibetan sources, I have
found that instead of the "aahaara" in "sukhassaahaaraa", the SA reading has
"aadhaara". It is not obvious which reading should take precedence, though,
to my mind, the SA reading seems to make better sense in the context than
the Pali "aahaara".
Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge