COLLECTED PAPERS Volume V K.R. Norman Published by The Pali Text Society Oxford 1994First published 1994 © Pali Text Society 1994 ISBN — 0 86013 3222 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the Pali Text Society. Distributed by Lavis Marketing 73 Lime Walk Oxford OX3 7AD Printed in Great Britain by ‘Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire ‘The Pali Text Society wishes to acknowledge with thanks the permission received from the following institutions, publishers and joumals to reproduce papers included in this collection. ‘Agam Kala Prakashan (108) Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha (105) Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto (113) Hon-No-Tomosha (111) Indian Books Centre (106) Kosei Publishing Co. (107) Mouton de Gruyter (100) ‘Nagata Bunshodo (112) Peeters Publishers (109) Peking University (101) ‘The Society for the Study of Pali and Buddhist Culture (115) Wiener Zeitschrift fir die Kunde Siidasiens (114)PREFACE In the rules of the Pali Text Society one of its objects is stated to be to “publish such other works as may be necessary for or conducive to the study of Pali". At its meeting in October 1988, the Council of the PTS persuaded its President that an appropriate way for the Society to fulfill this obligation would be to collect together in a number of volumes his articles on Pali, the ASokan inscriptions, and Middle Indo- ‘Aryan studies. All scholars working in these fields will surely be grateful that he agreed to the suggestion. His work has appeared over the years in a large number of different joumals and books, access to which is in very many cases now rather difficult. It was decided to publish the articles in chronological order, as they appeared. For this edition all the pieces have been retyped. ‘The Council of the PTS is delighted to record its gratitude for the many years of dedicated work which Mr Norman has done for the Society, by offering his collected articles to the scholarly world.