Ayaramga Sutta

Author(s): Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: UK Pali Text Society

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PREFACE.
work. In the first Çrutaskandha a paragraph generally represents the parts into which the author of the Dipikâ has divided his texts, while in the second Çrutaskandha I have deviated from Jinahamsasûri's practice in order not to introduce paragraphs of too great or unequal length.
The numbers on the margin refer to the pages of the Calcutta cdition. They will make it easier to identify passages and to find out where they are treated in the commentaries. The spaced passages in the first Çrutaskandha are fragments of trishtubh and anushțubh verses. A great number of passages which might have been single pâdas of a çloka are not made visible to the eye, because they may only accidentally resemble a pâda. The very loose metrical laws of the çloka make it unsafe to recognize smaller parts than half a cloka. Sometimes half a cloka or a trishțubh are printed in a separate line. In all these cases the commentators treat these passages as prose, as they also sometimes do regarding whole verses.
The second part of this work will contain a glossary of the more important and difficult words together with their Sanskrit prototypes and the explanations or definitions of the commentators.
My thanks are due to Dr. Rost, Librarian of the India Office Library; K. M. CHATFIELD, Director of Public Instruction, Bombay ; and Professor Dr. Lepsius, Chief Librarian of the Royal Library at Berlin ; who have most liberally and readily provided me with the materials necessary for preparing the text of this edition and the translation of it which will shortly appear in the “Sacred Books of the East."
II. Jacobi. MUXSTER, WESTPHALIA,
December, 1882.