KN:Ud1.8 discrepancy in Pali

[sujato]

Hi Waiyin,

@waiyin

“khuddaputtañhi, samaṇa, posa man”ti.

I discussed this difference and other details recently in this post

What is the difference between the Pali text of the VRI and that of the Mahāsaṅgīti?

SC uses the Mahasangiti (MS) text of the Pali canon. This is a revised and edited version of the text originally created by the Vipassana Research Institute (VRI). While the MS text is clearly a cleaner and more nicely edited edition, to what extent are these changes merely cosmetic, and to what extent do they reflect meaningful differences in the text? This question has been bugging me for a while in my translation work. I frequently come across cases where the MS text has quirks which I would…

@waiyin

I found something that probably doesn’t belong in the pali text: ()

This is a mark indicating a variant reading. Usually such variants are marked per word or phrase, but in some cases this is not convenient, so this convention is used to indicate that something has been omitted. Click “textual Information” in the sidebar, and you can hover and see the variant.

In this case, which is quite unusual, an entire sentence has been omitted by the editors of our text. The note says that the text is found in all manuscripts, however it is missing from the parallel passage in the Vinaya and also from the commentary. In their judgement the relevant sentence was a mistake, however they recorded it as a variant.