Fallen-leaves data?

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I’ve subscribed to the various repositories and have noticed mentions of " fallen-leaves data". Does anyone have a moment to give the $.05 explanation of what this is? I’m just curious.

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“Fallen leaves” are texts that have parallels but no actual text content. The main example is the Bhikkhuni patidesaniyas, where each rule is no more than a single word in a concatenated file. Thus the “leaf” (i.e. text) has “fallen” from the “tree” (i.e. hierarchical structure).

Normally on SC a text = a file = a set of parallels. But in this case since there is no actual file or text, we separate them out so we can still show parallels.

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Fascinating. Thanks for all your hard work.

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