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So much is clear :--That that conception which limits the ditthivāa to the 14 puyyas alone is too narrow. We find a recognition of the other constituent parts of the ditthivda also in those statements of the scholia, in which (cf. p. 258) “pūrvāṇi sammaty-ädikaś ca" (anuyogaḥ) are mentioned instead of the ditthivăa referred to in the text. See Āv. nijj. 8, 54. By saṁmatyādikaḥ (anuy ) we are probably to understand the first parts of anga 12, though the order has been inverted.477
[348] To the statements made, p. 212 foll., in reference to the gradual decline of the knowledge of the purvas, I add the following: - In the Kalasattari of Dhammaghosa478 verse 38 foll., Thulabhadda is referred to the year Vira 215; and there still existed in the time of Vaira 584 (Vira) 10, in that of Dubbalia 616 (Vira), 9} puvvas. In the scholiast on the passage and in KL 247" the latter name is cited as Durbalikā-Puspa (osya)mitra; in the Berlin scholiast on the Nandi, introduct. y. 32, as Durvalikāpuşpa (osya), he and his teacher Āryarakṣita being called the two navapūrvinau. In the year 1000 the entire puvvagayam was "gayam".
Let us now turn to the locus classicus itself. Its statements are unfortunately not clear and in fact were unintelligible to the scholiasts of both texts (Abbayadeva on anga 4, and Anon. on Nandi). They both assert with tolerable unanimity that, inasmuch as the text itself was no longer extant, they merely report the few utterances of tradition. Abhayadeva has the foll. at the beginning of his remarks : sarvam idaṁ prayo vyavachinnar tathā' pi yathāpiştaṁ (! dịşțaṁ ?) kimcit likhyate; and the anonymous scholiast on N. has : s. i. pr. vy. tathā 'pi leśato yathāgatasampradāyam kiscid vyākhyāyate. In explaining the first part Abhayadeva says : etac ca sarvaṁ samūlottarabhedam sūtrarthato vyavachinnaṁ and the anon. schol. :-tāni ca samülottarabhedāni sakalāny api sūtrato'rthataś ca (319) vyavachinnāni yathāgatasampradiyataś ca dar šitāni. Finally, Abhayadeva expresses himself in a similar manner concerning the second part : amūny api sūträrthato vyavachinnäni tatha 'pi drtānusāratah kimcit likhyate, and the anon,
471 Sammati 1) "opinion","view, in the St. Petersb. Dict., i. e. synonymous with
dísti. Leumann tells me that Silānka, too, on anga 1, 1, 8, refers to sammatyādau a discussion on the 7 nayas (see below p 352), and was in possession of a text of
that name before him ; cf. also the sammativytti, below p. 371. 478 Dhammaghosasūri, scholar (v. 74) of Devim da, died accord. to Kl. 255a Samyat
1357. This does not agree with Kalas. v. 41 foll. where in general the same prophetic statements are found as in Satrunj. Māh. 14, 290 foll. (See my Treatise, p. 47). These statements contain the dates 1912 and 1850 Vira (i e. Samvat 1442 and 1380).
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