[Buddha-l] 9. Attadiipaa Sutta (Joy Vriens)

[Dan Lusthaus]

> Thanks, Lance, for doing what the rest of us were too lazy to do: type 
> 'island' into the
> search at access to insight and watch as the verses come up.

Joanna,
Better would be http://www.bodhgayanews.net for searches in Pali.

If you put attadīpā (plural form) in the search box, you will get 9 hits 
(not counting the title of the attadipa sutta, which would make it ten). 
Three in the Digha Nikaya, five in the Samyutta, and one in a post-Nikaya 
text, the Sotabbamalini.

If one does a search for dīpa alone, adjusting for different grammatical 
forms, one founds many instances, including *numerous* instances in the 
Apadāna, etc. A search for the 3 letter combo dīp yields 1966 hits, from 
which false positives would have to be weeded out.

In a discussion that tended to reinforce the idea that the term occurs only 
twice, pointing out that at least seven additional instances are to be found 
justifies (for me) the use of the word "numerous." And these additional 
seven do not include the Sn and Ap. citations given by Lance.

Dan