Canonical quotations in Kacc. (Ole Pind's article)
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 1929
Date: 2006-06-20
In the section in Dr. Pind's article concerning canonical quotations
(in Kacc.-v) there are several statistics and references to identified
and un-identified quotations.
Is this a reference to work previously done by Franke (?) or someone
else? There isn't a footnote indicating the source --so I surmise
that Dr. Pind himself "traced" and "counted" the various quotations.
One reason I ask is that *none* of the printed editions I've included
in my survey attempt to trace/cite the sources of Kacc.'s quotations
from the canon ... so far, I have been identifying them "piecemeal" by
computer search (and, as Dr. Pind notes, many of them are from obvious
sources such as the Dhammapada).
My special concern in my own work is this: none of the editions I have
indicate examples very clearly (with the partial exception of
Vidyabhusana's work) so, when I encounter a non-canonical quote (or a
quotation from a non-extant text) I may mis-interpret it as something
other than an example. This could only happen in rare instances, but
because pali doesn't use colons & quotation marks, one can sometimes
mis-interpret a single-word (or short phrase) [that is in fact being
quoted as an example] *as if* it were meant to be part of the main
sentence [rather than a quotation].
In any case, if this was part of Franke's earlier work (or any earlier
work), I should seek out a copy of the earlier work in question.
E.M.