Re: Dhammananda Kosambi
From: L.S. Cousins
Message: 2246
Date: 2007-09-24
Dear Ole,
I was told something about this around 40 or so years ago by several
people, but my memory fails me as to the details. I do recall that it
was controversial especially in relation to the Naagarii edition in
1940. There may have been some difference of views as to under whose
name it should be published. But any information I have is simply
what I was told and may have been no more than academic gossip.
Lance Cousins
>Dear Dhammanando bhikkhu,
>
>Thank you very much for this interesting information. Kosambi´s edition of
>the Visuddhimagga was published in Harvard Oriental Series Volume 41 in
>1950, a few years before he died. His own preface to the edition is dated
>1927 and the title page claims that it is a revision of Warrens critical
>edition. My question is, have you got any information about Kosambi´s work
>on the revision, and why it was published as late as 1950, many years after
>it apparently was completed?
>
>With kind regards,
>Ole Holten Pind