Abstract
Analysis of Sīmās in Summary (Sīmā Vinicchaya Saṅkhepa), first published in Phnom Penh in 1932, is a Khmer-language booklet summarizing the contents of major Pāli texts and commentaries about the use of sīmās. The booklet is regularly mentioned in scholarly work on Cambodian sīmā traditions, and Giteau, writing in French, provides a detailed recapitulation of its contents.¹ The author of the booklet, Samdech Huot Tath (1891-1975), who would eventually become the Mahānikāya (a.w. Mahānikay, Mohanikay) patriarch, is one of the key Cambodian monastic figures of the twentieth century (Samtec (a.w. Samdech) is the royal title he was eventually given).