Discrepancies in metta sutta pali text

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Here Bhante @Sujato discusses a different error in the same sutta…

Mother and child simile, "mātā yathā niyaṃputta, māyusā ekaputtamanurakkhe"

Ahh Theravadins; they’re so triggered by emotions. Well, first thing is that the Pali text on SC has this rather embarrassing mistake in these lines. It should be: Mātā yathā niyaṃputtam āyusā ekaputtamanurakkhe; It is caused by the way the MS editors created the line breaks. In the source VRI edition it is correct, they have niyaṁ puttamāyusā. Worse, the MS editors added punctuation, which does not belong here at all, and they did so inconsistently, using comma in kp9 and dash in snp1.8. …