Abstract
The first western edition of the Visuddhimagga (hereafter Vism) was published by the Pali Text Society (PTS) under the general editorship of C. A. F. Rhys Davids in 1920-1921. She described it as 'a rough makeshift... put together by amateur hands so that we should no longer have to digest the contents through the unfamiliar medium of the scripts of further India' (1975 [1921], p. 764). It was superseded by the Warren and Kosambi (1950) version (see below) but it remains useful and necessary, not only because many modern authors continue to cite the text using the PTS page numbers, but also because of its indices: while that of Names and Subjects has now been largely superseded by Ousaka and Yamazaki (2004, using the PTS page numbers), the Index of Quotations remains unique. Of the work of preparing the indices Rhys Davids wrote:
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