Re: Textual criticism of Pali writings

Dear Bryan,

An excellent collection of text-critical comments on the Pali Dhammapada 
can be found in John Brough's edition of the Gaandhaarii Dharmapada. These 
comments were extremely useful to me when I collaborated with John Ross 
Carter to produce a book on the Dhammapada, where our own text-critical 
notes appear with an asterisk mark among the exhaustive endnotes . One 
spin-off of this effort was a study of the comment on kitavaa of Dhp 252. 
In the course of this study I found a new word made by the commentarial 
tradition: a feminine form kitavaa – entirely due to not understanding the 
grammar of the word in Dhp 252 (mistaking a nom. sg. for an instr. sg.) and 
its derivation from the ancient vocabulary of gambling. This study was 
subsequently published and recently uploaded to the internet.
  From Gambler to Camouflage: the strange semantic metamorphosis of Pali 
kitavaa:
http://sjp.academia.edu/MahindaPalihawadana
Mahinda


On Apr 25, 2011 3:33am, Bryan Levman <bryan.levman@...> wrote:


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