sacet, sace (15603)

sacet, sace
Entry 15603, Page 549, Col. 2

(sacet, sacet, sace)
sacet, sace¦, conj. (Pali sace; see also saca, saci; sa-, q.v., with cet, formed as pendant to no cet, Pali no-ce; so Childers and Andersen, Reader; otherwise, but to me unconvincingly, Geiger 105.2, Pischel 423), if; very common in most texts, prose as well as vss, and usually [Page550-a+ 71] retaining in writing the final -t or -d: Mvy 5433; SP 47.13; 78.10; 97.3; 322.4 etc.; LV (common, usually printed sa cet by Lefm.) 101.12; 226.4; 408.4 (the only passage noted Weller, as not Skt.); Mv (common) ii.88.10; 141.3; 194.11; 272.16; 315.6, 7; iii.4.4; 20.7; 199.15; 204.2; 406.11; Divy 2.7; 88.22; 302.20; 559.23 etc.; Av i.14.10 etc.; RP 8.4; 48.15; Gv 138.19; Bbh 20.20 etc. (common); Vaj 21.3; Sukh 11.9, 12, 15 etc.; Karmav 26.12; Bhīk 3a.3; Laṅk 261.13 (rare in Laṅk; not in Index, no other case noted by me); sace not common, and in prose only in Mv, e.g. ii.158.13; 428.18; iii.54.14; sace, v.l. sacet, iii.187.7 (vs); see saci; saṃdhi forms in which either sace or saca might be understood, sacāsya (pron. asya) Mv i.323.21; iii.318.11 (both prose); saceha (-iha) SP 31.11 (vs); sacaiva, ms. Ḱ saceva, prob. containing evam rather than eva, SP 31.9; 204.6 (both vss); sacevam, v.l. sacaivam, Mv ii.409.15 (vs); exceptionally followed by verb in impv., sacen mama …nayanaṃ gṛhītvā…muñca, na tv evāhaṃ…Divy 476.17--18, if you take my eye and… (impv.) let it go! (if you like), still I would not…; in a formula introducing a question, in most cases a double (alternative) question, saced (sacet, sacen) manyatha (twice both mss. and twice v.l. anyatha or °thā; both mss. manyatha only 340.2) bhikṣavaḥ Mv iii.337.11, 20; 338.5; 339.16; 340.2; in the corresp. passage in Pali, Vin. i.14.5, taṃ kiṃ maññatha bhikkhave, which is common also in BHS (kiṃ manyatha bhikṣavaḥ, or the like); does this Mv version have a different mg.? Perhaps suppose, monks, you consider (the following question)?