Re: 1915 Burmese "-suci" (Abhidhanappadipikasuci)

Thank you for a very informative and useful reply.

> Perhaps its defining feature is simply authorship by monks
> who had been taught Latin by Christian missionaries, using
> mid-Victorian Latin grammars and lexicons, and who then
> decided that the format of these works would work well for
> Pali too.

But the business of gathering grammatical & lexical excerpts from the
commentaries is at once a "modern" and highly "tradition" form of
authorship.

E.M.