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आचाराङ्ग I take the opportunity to congratulate you on your explanation of locative -ammi, which seems to solve one of the most perplexing problems of all. It goes well with the texts' failure to distinguish between 0- and u-, and with Bühler's suggestion that graphic confusion between n and ņ was involved : that wculd seem to justify Jacobi in his willingness to emend u-, n- and în (irrespective of the actual readings, as I understand him).
Schubring's identification of two groups within the Ācārānga MSS, and of separate strata of verse and prose material, seems to hint that critical editing is possible (though he did not make the attempt, and It would be a thankless task without access to facsimiles of the MSS).
With all good wishes,
- J. C. Wright
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