sacet
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] 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)?