12 V. Fausboll. 



Dadanti h'eke visame nivittlia 

 jhatva vadhitva atha socayitva, 

 sa dakkhiiia assnmuklia sadanda 

 samena dinnassa na agi-ham eti etc, 

 Jat. IV 



GT 

 5* 



Amisaih va <lhanam vapi 

 yattha passati tadiso 

 dubhim karoti dummedho 

 an ca jhatvatia gacchati. 



Jat. IV y. 



C lakser jliatva, B derimod clietva. Prof. Kern forc- 

 slaar at læse jetva og vil henføre Genindiet til Rødderne ji 

 elier jya, der i l'ali gaa over i hinanden. Leon Feer har i 

 sin Udgave af Saiiiyntta-Nlkaya optaget den birmanske Læse- 

 inaade , men han synes at have faaet Tvivl om, at han har 

 gjort Ret heri. thi han bemærker i Fortalen S. XIII: "Reyond 

 tlie varieties of reading in such and snch passages , tliere are 

 words ^^hi(■h are written aUvays differently in the two groups 

 of MSS. Thns, the >vord brahmana is not once ^vritten in R 

 with a, it is always >vitli aM. This mistake , however, I have 

 not even mentioned in my notes. Hut a perhaps more aston- 

 ishing blunder wliicli I carefully noticed is to be fonnd in SS. 

 The word chetvå ,having cut', occurs four times in one sutta, 

 >vhich itseif occurs four times in the Sagatha; and it becomes 

 the title of two of these suttas , and of one vaggo. Therefore 

 this word occurs four times four or sixteen times and thrice 

 more , viz. nineteen times ; and as \ve have three Singhalese 

 MSS., it occurs altogether fifty-seven times in these MSS., 

 ^\here it is written jhatva with a surprising constancy. I have 

 noted six other times tlie presence of this word; once it is 



') Jeg forklarer denne Skrivemaacle som en Levning af den gamle Form 

 bamhana, der forekommer i Aeoka-lndskrifterne, 



