reading, text-reading; passage of a text, text. Very freq. in Commentaries with phrase “ti pi pāṭho,” i.e. “so is another reading,” e.g. Kp-a.78 Kp-a.223; Snp-a.43 (˚ṃ vikappeti), Snp-a.178, Snp-a.192, Snp-a.477; Pv-a.25 (pamāda˚ careless text), Pv-a.48, Pv-a.58, Pv-a.86 and passim.

fr. paṭh