Re: What's does the "anta" in Suttanta mean?

Dear Petra,

The Kleine Schriften are too expensive to buy and at  the moment I would
have to order  them specially in the library to somewhere I could view
them. So it is not a very convenient reference. Google Books doesn't
display the precise page you refer to, but I think this refers to
Oskar's article on the nine Aṅgas.

But I basically don't agree with his arguments. I have written on this
elsewhere; so  I won't go into detail. (JOCBS 1913) In effect he
reinterprets  the early occurrences as referring to the Pātimokkha, but
in references to dhamma this  is very unlikely. Of course, most
references to sutta are in titles and we have no way of knowing how old
they are. In general  I am  rather sceptical of the more detailed
attempts  at layering the four Nikāyas.

So  I think it  more likely that we are dealing here with a combination
of su + ukta. These are things well said by the Buddha.

Lance Cousins

> According to von Hinüber, Kleine Schriften, vol. I 165ff. (can be seen
> via Goggle books), in the earliest layers of the canon sutta is used
> exclusively for the Pātimokkhasutta, whereas with reference to other
> texts than the Pāt. suttanta is used. In the later layers the
> difference between these two terms is blurred.
>
> Best,
> Petra___