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Quotatives Indicating Quotations in Pāli Commentarial Literature, I Iti/ti and Quotatives with Vuttaṃ

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This article deals with quotatives–overt marks that indicate quotations–consisting in iti/ti or containing vuttaṃ which are used in Pāli commentarial literature to signal the occurrence of a quotation. We distinguish two types, namely, “general quotatives” and “individual quotatives”. The former are universally valid. They are widely acknowledged and used in various text corpora over several centuries. The latter are defined by an author solely for usage in his commentary. In the first part of our contribution we describe the implications connected with the usage of quotatives, and depict the specific problems which may arise when a text including “individual quotatives” is tacitly borrowed. In the second part we present some of the most common “general quotatives” formed with the words iti/ti and vuttaṃ (ti vuttaṃ, tena or ten’ eva vuttaṃ; vuttañ c’/h’ or vuttam pi c’/h’ etaṃ, and vuttañ ca/hi). We aim at pointing out in which text layers a quotative is applied, for which text layers it is used, when it was in and when out of fashion.

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Abbreviations

Be :

Edition in Burmese script, refers to the editions in the Chaṭṭhasaṅgāyana series

Ce :

Edition in Sinhalese script

Chs:

Chaṭṭhasaṅgāyana Edition, Rangoon

CSCD:

Chaṭṭhasaṅgāyana CD-ROM, Version 3.0 (Igatpuri; Vipassana Research Institute, 1999). Contains the canonical and post-canonical Pāli texts based on the Burmese Chaṭṭhasaṅgāyana edition. (Available on CD-Rom or online, see www.vridhamma.org/Chattha-Sangayana-CD-Rom-Update). [Quoted according to the pagination of the European editions if possible. In case no European edition exists, I quote according to the Burmese edition; the pagination in the datafile sometime deviates by about one page from the printed editions]

GRETIL:

Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (http://gretil. sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.htm)

PTS:

Pali Text Society

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Kieffer-Pülz, P. Quotatives Indicating Quotations in Pāli Commentarial Literature, I Iti/ti and Quotatives with Vuttaṃ . J Indian Philos 43, 427–452 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9243-6

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