Re: Kc 2

In my previous message I wrote:

>The Nyāsa commentary on this sutta is about 8 pages long and I haven't seen
> any explicit mention by the author of this sutta being a saññāsutta
> although he does treat akkhara as a  technical term (saññā).

As my proofreading of the Nyāsa progressed through page 14, I came to the
following codanā and parihāro which addresses the very question of what
kind of sutta is Kc 2:

athavā | idaṃ pana suttaṃ saññādhikāraparibhāsāvidhi suttesu katamanti
codanā || catubbidhaṃhi suttaṃ || ivaṇṇuvaṇṇā jhalāti eva
mādīni saññāsuttāni || itthipumanapuṃsakasañkhyamiccevamādīni
adhikārasuttāni || ayuvaṇṇānañcāyo vuddhīti evamādīni paribhāsāsuttāni ||
vamodudantānamiccevamādīni vidhisuttāni || tesu panidaṃ saññāsuttanti
parihāro ||

The aurhor definitely identifies this sutta as a saññāsuttaṃ. There is quite
a lot of subcommentary on the Nyāsa commentary on Kc 2 which I have hardly
touched. The Thanbyinṭīkā has 16 pages and the Niruttisāramañjusāṭīkā has
nearly double that at about 33 pages. I would expect to find a detailed
explanation of the four types of suttas in those ṭīkās.

Jim