Re: Paali question

Dear Bryan,

Thank you for the Taisho references.  I'll have a look at the passages with
interest, but the presence of the incident / quotation in these Vinayas is
not so surprising given the derivational relationship of those schools.  As
Lamotte has not given anything for the Mahasanghika Vinaya, I assume that
there is no such ruling found there, which suggests that it was interpolated
after the big schism, but before the other schools went their seperate ways.
I wonder if this ruling was perhaps created contra the Mahasanghikas,
although their early material was also in a Prakrit so that would probably
be unlikely.  On the other hand, not everybody reads the key term in this
ruling as equivalent "Sanskrit".

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge