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Counting these two couples (Th.l and Th.2; Nd.l and Nd.2) 

 each as one, and rightly so, it then appears that of all the texts of the 

 Khuddaka-nikaya only two, namely Peta-vatthu and Patisarnbhida- 

 magga, collide with their initials. Were these initials digraphs, my 

 system would be wrecked. Happily they are not. It remains to dif- 

 ference them. — First, the differential for Peta-vatthu. The objections 

 to vatthu and varjsa and their initial v (p. 681) are cogent, and I think 

 Pe. is more suggestive than Pv. (Petakopadesa cuts no figure) and Bu. 

 than Bv. (for Buddha-varjsa). But since Peta-vatthu follows Vimana- 

 vatthu in the usual lists and the two titles thus form a couple, I waive 

 my objections and tolerate Vv. and Pv. This I do the less reluctantly, 

 because Vv. and Pv. already appear in several of the older lists, 

 because (despite the biliterality) Vi. may suggest Vinaya or Vibhanga 

 and Vm. may suggest Visuddhi-magga, and because PV. (for Vin. 5) 

 is now, I hope, quite out of court. — Secondly, the differential for Pati- 

 sambhida-magga. Neither Pa. nor Pt. will serve, since both are too 

 vague. Possible are Ps. and Pm. Since this work is very often spoken 

 of (so by Buddhaghosa) simply as the Patisambhida (without magga), 

 I deem Ps., despite its biblical suggestion (Psalm), preferable to Pm. 

 — But this paragraph shows well how intricately the pros and cons 

 interlace, and how full of compromises a system of this kind must 

 needs be. 



Khuddaka-patha and Dhamma-pada: for these, the designations 

 Kh. and Dh. go back to Childers, and Dh. appears in Lists 5 and 7 ; 

 we need not regret that p does not figure in them (p. 681). For Udana, 

 Ud. is on several accounts better than U. For Iti-vuttaka, the desig- 

 nation "It." is better than "I.," which suggests the Roman numeral 

 for 1 and looks too much like J. Nor will any one prefer Iv. to It. 

 For Sutta-nipata, Sn. is surely better than Su. (p. 680) or St. The 

 next four in Table I have just been discussed. For Jataka, the des- 

 ignation Ja. is better (all things considered, p. 678) than J. and more 

 suggestive than Jt. For the next two, Nd. and Ps., see pages 687, 

 688. There is no objection to Ap. for Apadana. On Bu. we have 

 already touched. The use of p as non-initial part of a combination 

 (compare page 681) in Cp., for Cariya-pitaka, might pass, if Cp. were 

 not used also for the English word " Compare." The combination 

 " Cp. Cp." in the sense of " Compare Cariya-pitaka " would be an inex- 

 cusable stone of stumbling. Juxtaposed c and r will not be mistaken 

 for a Pali phonetic combination (as in English cross), but will naturally 

 be pronounced char ; and since Ca. is vague, and identical with the en- 

 clitic conjunction ca (re), I think Cr. is the best available biliteral for 

 this text. 



