Pali Text Society JOURNAL OF THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY VOLUME XIX EDITED BY K.R. NORMAN Published by THE PALI TEXT SOCIETY OXFORD 1993© Pali Text Society 1993 ISBN 0 86013 309 5 First published in 1993 Distributed by Lavis Marketing 73 Lime Walk Oxford OX37AD Printed in Great Britain by ‘Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire CONTENTS, A survey of the Burmese and Siamese Pali manuscript collections in the Wellcome Institute By Jacqueline Filliozat The commentaries to the Andgatavamsa in the Pali manuscripts of the Paris collections By Jacqueline Filliozat Corrections to The Book of the Discipline By Thiradhammo Bhikkhu Theravadin literature in Tibetan translation By Peter Skilling External sandhi in Pali (with special reference to the Suttanipata) By K.R. Norman Contributors to this Volume Notices 43 65 69 203 215 217A SURVEY OF THE BURMESE AND SIAMESE PALI MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS IN THE WELLCOME INSTITUTE* ‘The purpose of this list is to facilitate access and handling, and to provide a basis for a more detailed scholarly investigation later. It is expected that the manuscripts mentioned here will be fully described at some future date, The list comprises 106 manuscripts containing 140 identified texts, some of them being rare items, unique in European collections. Wms. Burmese-Pali 1 Kammavaca (CPD 1.2,16) Gilded decorated metal plates; ff. 9 (kha-kh8); 520 x 95 mm; 7 lines, 62 char. in black lac, Burmese medium round script, 480 mm; 2 red lacquered wooden covers, gilded and decorated in red. Wms. Burmese-Pali 2 Kammavaca (CPD 1.2,16) Gilded decorated stiffened cloth; ff. 16 (ka-khi); 560 x 130 mm; 6 lines, 22 char. in black lac, tamarind-seed large script, 525 mm; 2 red lacquered wooden covers, gilded and decorated in red. * Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183, Euston Road, London. Journal of the Pali Text Society, Vol. XIX, 1993, pp. 1-41