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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1889.
hassá padaggenam pannatta. Later on in the course of our investigation we will recur to the fact that this statement in reference to the extent of the text is less by 100,000 padas than that of the present text. See $ 85 and $ 25 on the designation as bhagavati, which has remained the exclusive property of this text.-$ 85 Ayarassa pain bhagavatô sachúliyágassa parichásin uddésanakálá; - $ 88 difthivaya888 na atthastir suttiin pain tai: ujjusuyani, parinayáparinayan, évan althasiin suttani bhaniyavvani jaha Nandie. This reference to the Nandi, by which any further enumeration has been spared, is very remarkable from the fact that the statements in it, a few pages further on, are found in exactly the same detail in the fourth anga itself at this very point, in the consideration of the contents and extent of all the angas. This being the case the reference ought to have followed the collective statement found several pages further on in the same anga. We are therefore compelled to believe that the Nandi is the original source of information for this presentation, common to anga 4 and the Nandi, and that this presentation was at a later period taken from the Nandi and inserted in anga 4; furthermore, this insertion ninst have occurred at a period succeeding that to which the above reference of the redactor belongs. Or have we merely to do with a later act of the scribes ? Were this the case, this act of theirs is at least very remarkable, if not unfortunately executed. There is, however, one difficulty in the way of the assumption that the Nandi is the ultimate source, viz. :-there are all manner of differences between the treatment in the Nandi and that here, differences in which the Nandi does not always [285] contain the more ancient statements. See below. The fact that the table of contents in N. is much shorter than that here makes, it is true, eo ipso, an impression of greater antiquity; and N. offers in this table of contents many readings which are decidedly older and better,
We have now reached a point where we may discuss the collective presentation itself. It begins simply: dudlasarige gamipidagé par (natté), tah:.. then follow the names of the 12 angas and then the details in reference to contents, division and extent of each of the twelve. I ingert here what I have collected from the statements in reference to division and extent, that the reader may obtain a general survey of the whole. I subjoin the v. r. from the Nandi (N) which, after what I have said above, may in the last instance claim priority over those of the anga.
1. Ayare, 2 suyakhamdhi, 25 ajjhayaņâ, 85 uddêsanakala, 85 samuddêsanakálů, 18 payasahassaim payaggênarn.
2. suyagade, 2 suyakh. 23 ajjh., 33 add., 33 samudd., 36 padasabassain (36,000) padaggêņa.
3. thane, 1 suyakh., 10 ajjh., 21 udd., 21 samudd., 72 payasahasskim (72,000) payaggênan.
4. samavae, 1 ajjh., 1 sayakh., 1 add., 1 samudd., égé chôyâle payasayasa hassé (144,000 ;. saya is omitted in the incorrect Berlin MS. of N, but accord. to Leumann is in the N Ed.) pay.
a 5. viyahe, I say., 100 ajjh. with & residue (! égê sairégé ajjhayanasayê), 10 uddésagasahassaim, 10 samuddésagasa hassâim, 36 vågaraṇasabassaim, 84 (!) payasa hassin (84,000) payaggêņam :- the latter statement is found also in § 84-see above page 284-N, however, has: do lakkhả atthâsîi (288,000) payasa hassaim, which corresponds to twice the former steady increase in 1-4.
6. [286] nayadhammakahau, 2 suyakh., 19 (A N Edit., 29 BCN) ajjh. 10 dhammakahaņam vagga (this omitted in N), 19 (A N Ed., 29 BCN) uddêsanakala, 19 (A N Ed., 29 BN) samuddoorņak Al, sankbêjjhim payasayasa hassaim p. (saya omitted in N., also in Ed. ; 576,000 Schol.) - Between 10 dh, vaggå and 19 (or 29) udd. we find inserted : in each dhammakah 500 akkhaiya, in each akkhîiya 500 uvakkbâiya, in each uvakkhaiyA 500 akkhaiya-uvakkháiyâ, in all 34 akkhaiyakodi6.44 In N this statement from dasadhammakahåņam vagga (inclusive) on, is at an earlier place in the description of the contents:
7. uvasagadasao, 1 suyakb., 10 ajjh., 10 add. káld, 10 samudolâ, sank hêjjai payas ayasahanskim p. (saya omitted in N, also in Ed.; 1,152,000 Schol.).
eguna visar A N Ed., ekonaviniati Schol. (also on N), ég Anattisat BCN.
CY. my remarks on aniga 6 in referenoe to this remarkable number. We are lead to expect figure. N Ed. has kahapagako coord. to Leumann instead of akkhaiyakodio.
much higher
