Re: Mangala commentary & Lao misc
From: Eisel Mazard
Message: 2014
Date: 2006-10-05
Hi Justin,
Thanks for the further description of the Mangala-attha-dipani --I'm
glad that I "forced" a few further comments out of you, as I clearly
had it confused with another text (and, in fact, knew nothing about
this one).
I already know a fair bit about Kitti's work --cf. the completely
dismissive gloss his grammatical works earn in Hinuber's _Handbook_!
My impression of the unpublished yojana-mula-kaccayana is simply
that attributing it to Kitti "by default" is somewhat irresponsible
--although it sometimes seems that nobody else in Thailand ever knew
enough Pali to compose an original work of this kind, we must not give
in to the temptations of such cynicism!
E.M.