Re: Inquiry on the Survey of Pali Grammatica

I vaguely recall that even Senart discussed this issue in Kacc 565 (as
you mention) --although even the verse number may be different in his
treatment.  I'll check into it tomorrow.  Senart's work has many
faults, but he did check possible sources of quotations from other
grammars, etc.

You raise a more interesting question in general, viz., is any part of
Kacc. "truly metrical" or was any section of the text composed in
verse at some prior stage?  [Obviously I'm excluding the "introductory
stanzas / proems" from this question.]  I had the impression that
there were a few "broken verses" in the text ... I can't even remember
when I last thought about this issue, but perhaps it was concerning a
couple of the "corrupted" verses you mention as taken from the
Kaatantra into the Vutti?

I should also state plainly that I know *nothing* about the Kaatantra.

E.M.