This study explores some of the connections between the presentation of religious ideas and the use of concessive clauses and sentences in Pāli Buddhist literature. Special emphasis is placed on the linguistic construction kiñcāpi . . . atha kho . . . . Although this is widely understood to be a concessive and correlative construction and is often translated in ways that adequately reproduce the meaning of the Pāli, still it is the case that the kiñcāpi . . . atha kho . . . construction is sometimes misrepresented. Surprisingly, misrepresentations of said construction are especially prevalent in an ever-growing body of work related to one Pāli text in particular, the Tevijja Sutta . This has helped to obscure the extent to which the sutta is a response to developments in Brahmanical theology external to the text itself. This study examines this unwelcome situation and proposes a remedy.

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婆罗门说话，试图解释：早期佛教文本中的祭司技巧和让步

本研究探讨了巴利佛教文献中宗教观念的表述与让步从句和句子的使用之间的一些联系。特别强调语言结构 kiñcāpi 。. . 阿塔库。. . . 虽然这被广泛理解为一个让步和相关的结构，并且经常以充分再现巴利语含义的方式进行翻译，但 kiñcāpi 的情况仍然如此。. . 阿塔库。. . 建筑有时被误传。令人惊讶的是，在与一部巴利文尤其是 Tevijja Sutta 相关的不断增长的作品中，对上述结构的歪曲尤其普遍。这有助于模糊经典在多大程度上是对文本本身之外婆罗门神学发展的回应。