SV: Inquiry on the Survey of Pali Grammatica

<The whole thing seems absurd to me --but, very recently, I received e-mails
from Dr. Bedell supporting Vidyabhusana's position.  This sort of judgement
must rely either on intimate knowledge of the particular text, or broad
awareness in patterns of authorship among layered texts & commentaries in
the genre; given this perspective, Vidyabhusana's position seems absurd>

Yes, indeed. For instance, there are many many interpolations from various
sources in the vutti. It is possible to trace quite a few of them. The sutta
is partly based Kaatantra, not the early version, but the heavily inflated
one that was commented upon by Durgasimha. Quite a few of the suttas of
Kaatantra are metrical i.e. they are s.lokapaadas introduced from metrical
annotations. This origin marks some of the suttas of Kacc. In addition,
there are many suttas that were modelled on Paa.nini's grammar. One was
transmitted in a faulty form viz. Kacc 565 pattavacane alamatthesu ca which
is based upon Paa.n III 4:66 paryaaptivacane.su alamarthe.su. pattavacane is
incomprehensible, one would expect pariyattivacane as the commentators
noticed.

OP