Re: 2000 edition of ADP + commentary

Hi Eisel,

Thank-you for the description and for your opinion of the book. Does it
mention who the author of the .iiikaa might be? According to Ven.
Nyanatusita's Reference Table of Pali Literature (under 5.6.1), there are
several .tiikaas on Abh beginning with the pura.na.tiikaa by Vaacissara.
There is a .tiikaa available on the CSCD disk and online at tipitaka.org
which I make use of and occasionally quote from it on this list. However, I
still don't know who wrote it or which .tiikaa it is. Here is the
introductory verse from it:

  yassa ~naa.na.m sadaa ~naa.na.m, naa~n~neyyaa ~naa.naka.m vinaa.
  nissesagu.nayuttassa, tassa natvaa mahesino..
  satthantaraa samaadaaya, saara.m sabbadharaa tathaa.
  kariyyate'bhidhaanappa-diipakassatthava.n.nanaa..

Does it match the one in your .tiikaa?

Best wishes,
Jim

> I received my copy of the aforementioned 2000 edition of the ADP ( =
> Abhidhanappadipika, 12th century lexicon by Mogg, etc.) direct from
> Pune this week.
>
> How positively you regard the book will have more to do with your
> opinion of the .Tiikaa than your opinion of the editor. The one
> decisive advantage this has over the Burmese edition (of the ADP) is,
> obviously, the inclusion of the full text of the commentary; however,
> the index is also somewhat better and more exhaustive than the Burmese
> (probably because the latter was composed without a computer?).


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