RE: kariyā

Dear Aleix,

Besides misspellings in the MS, there are grammatical problems to solve as well. In Sadd, ‘ākhyātaṃ’ is explained with ‘kiriyaṃ akkhāyati’. Is kiriyaṃ’ nom. or acc.? And is ‘akkhāyati’ not a passive verb?  To help solve some of the problems with ‘ākhyātaṃ’, I’ve started looking into the Amarakoṣa commentaries for some Sanskrit interpretations if the meaning as a verb is there.

In the ṭīkā, there is this:

kiriyanti gamena vacanādikaṃ kiriyaṃ.

I find gamena odd which I take is the  root gam in the instrumental case. I think it should have an iti after it (gamenāti). And since the root form is usually gamu with the indicatory letter u, gamunāti might be better.

I’m pleased to hear that U of T will be hosting the U Pho Thi pdf collection of Burmese MSS. I was the one who suggested U of T to Bill Pruitt two years ago and got him in touch with Prof. Emmrich.  Another digital collection being prepared that may be of interest to Prof. Emmrich are some 500 rare Tibetan Buddhist MSS. They are on 10 reels of microfilm photographed in the 60s with the help of the Canadian High Commissioner to India and kept in a safe in Toronto and only just now being digitized (3 reels so far).

I certainly would love to know more about the first part of  Sadd-ṭ. It sounds like it exists. I understand that the whole text is quite rare and for a while thought not to exist.  The first 2 paricchedas would be helpful in the readings of the ākhyātakappo and its problems.

Best wishes,

Jim