SV: Duroiselle's Grammar: New Edition, Introduction

From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 1941
Date: 2006-06-25

<<D'Alwis and Mason both thought that they were racing against the clock to
find some of the last Kaccāyana manuscripts, or else the work would be lost
forever.  Were these fears well founded?>>

Probably. Anyway, it is clear to me that the readings of Kaccaayana ms.s are
no more than ca. 300 years old, because Kaccaayana-va.n.nanaa (16th c. C.E.)
quotes examples from the Kacc-v that have been altered absurdly.

OP.



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