LANMAN. 



PALI BOOK-TITLES. 



G77 



List 15 

 1909 

 Lauman. 



A sin. 



Abhp. 



Ablis. 



Kacc. 



Khus. 



Jina. 



Nett. 



Peta. 



Pgdp. 



Miln. 



Muls. 



Yoga. 



Visu. 



Sdhs. 



Sank. 



Samp. 



Sumv. 



List 2 



18SG 



T. Davids. 



Asl. 



Abb. 



Kb.S. 



Net. 



Pgd. 



Mis. 



Vsra. 



San. 



Smp. 



Sum. 



List 3 



1888 



E. Muller. 



Mil. 



Snip. 

 Sum. 



List 4 



1896 



T. Davids. 



Asl. 



Abb.S. 



Kacc. 



Khus. 



Jin. 



Nett. 



Pet. 



Pgd. 



Mil. 



Mul. 



Yog. 



Sad.S. 

 San.K. 

 Snip. 

 Sum. 



List 5 

 1898 

 H. Warren. 



Atth. 

 Abh. 



Mil. 



ListS 



1900 



. Davids. 



Asl. 

 Abh.S. 



Sam. 

 Sum. 



Mil. 



Vis.M. 



Sum. 



List 8 



19U1 



Auderseu. 



As. 



Nett. 



Mil. 



List 10 



1902 



E. Hardy. 



Asl. 



Sv. 



Jin. 



Nett. 



Pet. 



Mil. 



Vis.M. 



Sad.S. 



Sum. 



Canons governing the determination of the new abbreviations. — 

 Since the determination has been made with careful consideration of 

 certain principles, it is needful to state them. For convenience of 

 reference, I call them canons. 



Canon l. — Full weight should be given to general considerations of 

 broad scope. — This canon should dominate all the rest. It should 

 be regarded as a paribhashasutram 17 for all that follow. 



One such general consideration may be instanced : the designations 

 of the most important texts should be settled first, and those of the 

 rest afterwards, as well as may be with the resources then available 

 (cp. Canon 5). — Of other such let me give examples. Thus brevity 

 (Canon 7) in itself is just as desirable for the designation of the 

 Cariya-pitaka as it is for the Dlgha-nikaya. But when we look at the 

 matter from a larger point of view, and consider that the Cariya- 

 pitaka is a text as insignificant in its contents as it is in extent, and 

 that, as such, it needs very seldom to be cited, it is palpably inju- 

 dicious to assign to it the great distinction of referring to it by a 

 single letter (C). And the like holds for B and the Buddha-varjsa. 

 This distinction must not be cheapened ; it must be reserved for the 

 most important and most frequently cited texts of the four great 

 Nikayas, to wit, Digha, Majjhima, Sarjyutta, and Anguttara. 



To take a different example. Thanks to Fausboll, the Jataka is a very 



17 " A general rule or definition applicable throughout a whole system, and 

 more binding than any particular rule." Max Muller, SBE., xxx. 311. 



