Re: Mangala commentary & Lao misc

> The Mangala-attha-dipani
> (if that is what you are referring to) is usually attributed
> to 1516 (or so) Chiang Mai. One of the "four classics" of the
> so-called "Chiang Mai Golden Age of Pali Scholarship."
> ...
> It forms the basis of several ecclesiastical exams.

Oh, right --this is the text with a lot of cosmological material, isn't it?

I think that I once read an article stating that a comparative of
study of the Mangala-dipani and canonical sources (such as the
Aga~n~na sutta, etc.) was a desideratum.

The EFEO seems to have a "major" (viz., in scale) Pali text of Thai
composition/origin (seemingly attributed to Nyana-Kitti by default) in
the Kaccayana tradition, with a title along the lines of
"Yojana-mula-kaccayana"; I have asked that Filliozat send me the
digital photos of it (there is no printed edition, according to the
EFEODATA file) --but I am unlikely to take it on as a major project
(as I have other major projects underway...).

E.M.