It was, in fact, the late Steven Collins who both endorsed his teacher Richard Gombrich’s adoption of this interpretation and familiarized his colleagues at the University of Chicago - Sheldon Pollock and others - with same. 

Matthew Kapstein 

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See also:

Konrad Klaus: Zu den buddhistischen literarischen Fachbegriffen sutta 
und suttanta. In: From Turfan to Ajanta. Festschrift for Dieter 
Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Eli 
Franco and Monika Zin. Lumbini 2010, p. 519-532.

Martin Straube

Zitat von "Lubin, Tim" <LubinT@wlu.edu>:

> Oskar von Hinüber (1994: “Die Neun Aṅgas,” p. 132) approvingly cites 
> Mayrhofer’s judgment (EWA III/ 492) that the derivation from sūkta 
> is “entbehrlich”; he cites a long discussion of the term in 
> Buddhaghosa’s Atthasālinī 19.15–26 as evidence against it.
>
> Tim Lubin
>
>
> From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of 
> INDOLOGY <INDOLOGY@list.indology.info>
> Reply-To: Andrew Ollett <andrew.ollett@gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, May 10, 2021 at 3:28 PM
> To: Jim Ryan <jim_ryan@comcast.net>
> Cc: INDOLOGY <INDOLOGY@list.indology.info>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] The Buddhist term sutta
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> See Max Walleser's 1914 book, footnote on p. 4:
>
> https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.87981/page/4/mode/2up<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdli.granth.87981%2Fpage%2F4%2Fmode%2F2up&data=04%7C01%7Clubint%40wlu.edu%7C0333231e2b2a4612271008d913e9c5d1%7Cd1a80622a99943e58eb67873905e939e%7C1%7C0%7C637562717033304457%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DTNhc%2Bn9b9De7mhR5NFEIwsDBzS5Mmag%2B4MyhjFm2ak%3D&reserved=0>
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> K. R. Norman and Gombrich accepted this suggestion. I suppose 
> Pollock got it from Gombrich.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 2:22 PM Jim Ryan via INDOLOGY 
> <indology@list.indology.info<mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> 
> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sheldon Pollock in The Language of the Gods in the World of Men (p. 
> 52) suggests that the Buddhist term “sutta” does not derive from the 
> Sanskrit sūtra, but rather from sūkta. Sanskrit double consonant 
> clusters do show regular assimilation, regressively and 
> progressively, in Prakrit, where two different consonants become a 
> double of one of them. I’m interested in hearing learned opinion on 
> Pollock’s suggestion. I had not noticed this interesting detail, 
> when I first read this book some years ago.
>
> James Ryan
> Asian Philosophies and Cultures (Emeritus)
> California Institute of Integral Studies
>
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