Re: Pali texts recently "discovered", etc.

Eisel writes:

> Jim Anderson tells me
> that the Devanagari edition actually has very few errors and is quite
> reliable --a fact quite unknown to me.

Actually I can't point to a single error in the Devanagari script edition
but there must be some error(s) somewhere in the 41 volume set that I have
yet to come across. In the late 70s I was able to order this very cheap
edition (5 rupees per volume) from Motilal Banarsidass and acquired the
whole set minus 1 volume for about $60 including the postage. Eisel tells me
that this edition has since been reprinted in Taiwan. The original edtion
first came out in the late 50s and early 60s and is based on the Burmese 6th
Council printed edition. The general editor was Bhikshu Jagdish Kashyap and
I found out more about him in a book by Bhikshu Sangharakshita, the founder
of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order. I think the title of the book
was something like _The Thousand Petalled Lotus_ and was about the author's
long pilgrimage all over India on foot in the 50s. In it there is a very
interesting chapter about his experiences in studying Pali with Bhikshu
Kashyap. Apparently Kashyap was well-versed in Kaccaayana's grammar. I also
remember in the book that Kashyap was rather critical of the state of Pali
learning in Sri Lanka at the time.

Best wishes,
Jim

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