Collected Papers.

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Collected Papers, vol. VIII. By K. R. NORMAN. Lancaster: PALI TEXT SOCIETY, 2007.

This book forms a welcome addition to the multivolume Kleine Schriften of K. R. Norman, one of the monumental figures in Middle-Indic studies in modern, or indeed, any times. Middle Indo-Aryan has been exceptionally lucky in the scholars attracted to it, and Norman, with his bracing mixture of philological and linguistic acumen, is no exception.

The volume contains fifteen papers (nos. 133--47 in the through-numbering system of the Collected Papers), which appeared between 1999 and 2006, and ten reviews (nos. R22-31) from a longer chronological range (1979--2002). The articles include both detailed philological treatments of particular texts (e.g., two installments of "The Metres of the Lakkhana-suttanta" [V and VI, 2001 and 2002]; a detailed consideration of "Asoka's Thirteenth Rock Edict," including the Greek version as well as the Prakrit versions, 1999) and...