Kaccāyanabyākaraṇaṃ (U Nandisena)

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U Nandisena, Kaccāyanabyākaraṇaṃ, an English translation of the Kaccāyana grammar with its vutti and examples, based on the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana text. First published in Myanmar in 2005; first electronic version published by the Instituto de Estudios Buddhistas Hispano (IEBH) in 2017 under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 licence reproduced below. Both editions contain the first seven chapters, suttas 1 to 623; the eighth chapter, the Uṇādikappa, is issued by IEBH as a separate file and is not here.

The title page, copyright page, preface and contents below are taken from the 2017 electronic edition, a scan of the printed book whose text layer covers only the copyright page and the preface. The translation itself is taken from the translator’s own file of the 2005 text, a Word document printed to PDF in 2006, because that file carries the complete text as typed. Its legacy Pāli font has been mapped back to Unicode and the four-fold overprinting that stood for bold type has been collapsed. The translator’s footnotes are kept as footnotes; the review comments embedded in that document appear as footnotes marked “Translator’s comment”. Each rule carries three numbers as printed: the sutta’s sequence number, the traditional number of the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana edition, and a third number in parentheses from the source. The Mātikā, the eighteen-page index of suttas that opens the book, is not reproduced.

The printed book was set from a later state of the text than the translator’s file, and the two differ in the Sandhi chapter. The print’s additions have been adopted here: a page on the uses of ca and on kvaci, vā, navā and vibhāsā at the end of the chapter (book p. 48), the revised wording of the closing question in §2–§9, and short explanatory notes and derivation steps in §10, 12, 20, 26, 29, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 47 and 51. The fourteen “(check)” flags the translator left in the file have been dropped. Chapters 2–7 are the same text in both.

Both files are available here: the 2017 electronic edition, the scan of the printed book (PDF, 92 MB) and the translator’s file of the 2005 text (PDF, 1.4 MB).

Title page

Sirilaṅkādīpe
Bhadantakaccāyanācariyattherena
viracitaṃ
Kaccāyanabyākaraṇaṃ

Translated into English by
U Nandisena

BE. 2549 · Instituto de Estudios Buddhistas Hispano · AD. 2005

Copyright

First published 2005
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Preface

The present translation of the ancient Pali grammar Kaccāyana is the result of the classes given to me, starting in 1995, by the late Venerable U Silananda, a renowned Burmese monk. It was first published in Myanmar in 2005.

Now I am grateful to the Hispanic Institute of Buddhist Studies (IEBH) for publishing this translation as a PDF document. I would like to especially thank Bhikkhu Rāhula, a Mexican monk, for taking the time to scan the whole printed document, 332 pages, and creating this file.

This PDF document contains the first seven chapters of Kaccāyana. The eighth chapter is available as a separate file. If you wish to get the eighth chapter, Uṇādi-Kappa, please contact IEBH (admin@iebh.org) requesting it.

Right now I am working on a second edition of this translation which I hope will be published soon.

Bhikkhu Nandisena
Dhamma Vihara
Mexico
January, 16, 2017

Contents

As printed in the 2005 edition; the page numbers are those of the printed book.

Chapter	Suttas	Sections	Pages
Mātikā			1–18
1-Sandhi-kappa (1. Sandhi Chapter)	1–51	Paṭhamo kaṇḍo (First Section) 1–11; Dutiyo kaṇḍo (Second Section) 11–22; Tatiyo kaṇḍo (Third Section) 23–29; Catuttho kaṇḍo (Fourth Section) 30–41; Pañcamo kaṇḍo (Fifth Section) 42–51	19–48
2-Nāma-kappa (2. Noun Chapter)	52–270	Paṭhamo kaṇḍo (First Section) 52–119; Dutiyo kaṇḍo (Second Section) 120–160; Tatiyo kaṇḍo (Third Section) 161–210; Catuttho kaṇḍo (Fourth Section) 211–246; Pañcamo kaṇḍo (Fifth Section) 247–270	49–137
3-Kāraka-kappa (3. Case Chapter)	271–315		138–166
4-Samāsa-kappa (4. Compound Chapter)	216–243		167–193
5-Taddhita-kappa (5. Secondary Derivative Chapter)	244–405		194–233
6-Ākhyāta-kappa (6. Verb Chapter)	406–523	Paṭhamo kaṇḍo (First Section) 406–431; Dutiyo kaṇḍo (Second Section) 432–457; Tatiyo kaṇḍo (Third Section) 458–481; Catuttho kaṇḍo (Fourth Section) 482–523	234–284
7-Kibbidhāna-kappa (7. Primary Derivative Chapter)	524–623	Paṭhamo kaṇḍo (First Section) 524–549; Dutiyo kaṇḍo (Second Section) 550–570; Tatiyo kaṇḍo (Third Section) 571–589; Catuttho kaṇḍo (Fourth Section) 590–606; Pañcamo kaṇḍo (Fifth Section) 607–623	285–328
8-Uṇādikappa	624–673	not included in either edition

The printed contents give the Samāsa chapter as suttas 216–243 and the Taddhita chapter as 244–405; the chapters themselves run 316–343 and 344–405. The eighth chapter is printed as “Uṇāpikappa”.

(a) Seṭṭhaṃ tilokamahitaṃ abhivandiy’ aggaṃ,¹
Buddhañ ca Dhammam amalaṃ Gaṇam uttamañ ca,
Satthussa tassa vacanatthavaraṃ subuddhuṃ,
Vakkhāmi suttahitam ettha Susandhikappaṃ².
(b) Seyyaṃ jineritanayena budhā labhanti,
Tañ c’āpi tassa vacanatthasubodhanena,
Atthañ ca akkharapadesu amohabhāvā,
Seyyatthiko padam ato vividhaṃ suṇeyya¹.

(a) Having saluted the excellent, honored by the three worlds, the highest Buddha, together with the pure Dhamma, and the noble Sangha, I will expound here the good chapter on sandhi in accordance with the Discourses to know well the noble meaning of the word of the Teacher. (b) The wise ones get better by the way preached by the Victorious One, by knowing well the meaning of His word and by non-confusion of the meaning among letters and words. Therefore, let the one who wishes to excel listen to the various words.

Chapters

• 1. Sandhikappa (Sandhi Chapter)
• 2. Nāmakappa (Noun Chapter)
• 3. Kārakakappa (Case Chapter)
• 4. Samāsakappa (Compound Chapter)
• 5. Taddhitakappa (Secondary Derivative Chapter)
• 6. Ākhyātakappa (Verb Chapter)
• 7. Kibbidhānakappa (Primary Derivative Chapter)

Footnotes

1. Translator’s comment UN1 (p. 19): Sandhi is already an English word. It can be found in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition and The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition . ↩

2. Vasantilaka Gāthā. ↩