tad yathA

[Richard MAHONEY]

Dear McComas,

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 01:56:04PM +1000, McComas Taylor wrote:

> How common is `tad yathA' as an opening device in Sanskrit lit?

this phrase appears reasonably often in the siksasamuccaya. for an
e-text see:

 http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/zs_text/zs_text.html

i've uploaded the results of a `grep' search of this version to:

 http://homepages.comnet.co.nz/~r-mahoney/zs_text/tad_yathA-utf8.txt

an excerpt:

./zs_01_utf8.txt:333:śraddhāmūlaṃ ... tad yathâryasiṃhaparipṛcchāyāṃ |

equals zs_01_utf8.txt (chapter one) line 333


best regards,

 richard


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