LANMAN. — PALI BOOK-TITLES. 665 



Comment 2 : The biliterals 687 



Comment 3 : The triliterals 689 



Comment 4: The quadriliterals: the varjsas; the "other books " . . . 689 



Pali commentaries on the 27 canonical books: namely, commentaries . 690 



Of Buddhaghosa, Dhammapala, Upasena, Mahanama, Buddhadatta . . 690 



Table III. Commentaries of Buddhaghosa, etc. The Table gives . . 691 



Proposed designations; author-names; fanciful titles, Pali and English 691 



Excursus : Books about Pali books 692 



The fanciful titles : their confusions and uncertainties 692 



Different names for the same thing : polyonymy 693 



Different names for the same commentary 694 



The same title for different texts. Paramattha-dlpani 694 



The " Parts " of the Paramattha-dipani 695 



The Linattha-ppakasinl 696 



Fanciful titles of books in Sanskrit, Hebrew, English 696 



Unserviceableness of the fanciful titles of these commentaries .... 697 



The Hindus often ignore these fanciful titles 697 



The fanciful titles should be ignored by us also 698 



We should speak of " the Digha-commentary " and so on 698 



The abbreviation "cm." for "commentary " 698 



Supercommentaries designated by t 699 



Methods of designating the manuscripts in general 699 



Four classes of Pali mss. to be clearly distinguished : according .... 700 



1. To the country of origin ; 2. to the alphabet used 700 



Group-letter with an exponent, for an individual ms 701 



Determination of the group-letter: 701 



B = Burmese ; C = Cingalese ; K = Kambodian ; S = Siamese 70 1 



The exponents : Arabic numerals or small letters 702 



Typography of the designations of the mss 702 



Confusions of the designations in texts already issued 703 



Digha-nikaya, etc. Vinaya, etc 704 



Group-letter without exponent, for a group of mss 706 



Organization of science. — Whatever may be thought of the eco- 

 nomic or political or moral results of the work of such " captains of 

 industry" as Carnegie or Rockefeller, one thing is certain: the 

 efficiency of their great business organizations, the United States Steel 

 Corporation and the Standard Oil Company, is nothing less than mar- 

 vellous. Professor Hermann Diels, in his admirable treatise 1 entitled 

 The Organization of Science, has set forth much of what has already 

 been done to further the progress of science by united human endeavor ; 

 but his exposition makes very clear how little has been done, in com- 

 parison with what should have been done. It is a moderate statement 

 to say that, if the business of a great American railway or steel manu- 



1 In Die Kultur der Gegenwart, 1, i. 591-649. 



