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For Paramattha-dipani, the comprehensive fanciful name of the com- 

 mentary on these six texts, we have in Lists 2, 3, 4, 5 the abbreviation 

 Par. Dip. (compare Par. Jot., above) ; but since this is an indica- 

 tion which does not indicate, List 4 adds : " Parts 3 and 5 quoted as 

 Thig.A. and P.V.A." 



For no. 9, see under no. 5 ; for no's 10-13, see under no. 7. 



No. 14, Ja.cm. List 4 gives Jat. for the commentary, and J. for the 

 verses ; but see p. 686, Canon 8. 



No's 15 and 16, Nd.cm. and Ps.cm. Here again (as in the case of 

 Par. Jot. and Par. Dip.), cumbrous double designations are needed, 

 Sad. Paj. and Sad. Pak. (so List 5). 



No's 17-19 are unpublished, but List 5 gives Madh. Vil. for no. 18. 



No. 20, Vin.cm. This is usually designated as Smp., but as Sam. in 

 Lists 5 and 7. 



No. 21, Dhs.cm. This is oftenest Asl. ; but it is Atth. in List 5 and 

 As. in List 8. 



No. 22, VbLcm. This work, published (like no. 21) in a volume by 

 itself in the Rangoon ed. of the P. G. Mundyne Pitaka Press, has 

 hardly received any designation among Occidental scholars. 



No's 23-27. In the ed. just named, these last five form one vol- 

 ume and are printed in the order given by Buddhaghosa (D.cm. I. 17) 

 or as in Table III, Kvu.cm. being put in the third place among these 

 five (thus: Dhk.cm., Pug.cm., Kvu.cm.), instead of being put in the 

 first. It would be useless to invent a comprehensive designation for 

 the five. No. 25 has received the designation K. V. A. in Lists 4 and 

 10, and Kathav. P. A. in List 13. No. 23 appears as Dhk. A. in 

 List 4. 



Different names for the same thing. — Polyonymy. We have heard 

 of the student who, undergoing examination on the Homeric question, 

 answered that t; The Iliad was not written by Homer, but by another 

 man of the same name." In India the trouble is often the other way, — 

 it is the same man with another name. " The Hindus, even in his- 

 torical documents and works, had the bad habit of designating one and 

 the same person by different names of the same significance. Thus 

 Vikrama-arka = Vikrama-aditya ; Surya-mati = Surya-vati." 39 So one 

 of the three Elders at whose request Buddhaghosa wrote the Ja.cm., is 

 called by him (I. 1) Buddha-deva, but by the Gnvrj., p. 68, Buddha- 

 piya. — Unfortunately, this is true not only of men, but also of texts. 

 The Dhamma-sarjgani is called Dhamma-sarjgaha by great Buddha- 

 ghosa himself at D.cm., I. 17 ; while in the Rangoon (Mundyne) ed. of 



39 So Biihler, Zeitalter des Somadeva, Stzbr. der Wiener Ak., 1885, p. 554. 



