Jainism in Buddhist Literature

Author(s): Bhagchandra Jain Bhaskar
Publisher: Alok Prakashan

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(vi) The Sutta vibhanga and the Khandhakas. (vii) The Jātakas and the Dhammapada.
(viii) The Niddesa, the Itivuttaka, and the Patisambhidãmagga.
(ix) The Peta and Vimāna-Vatthus, the Apadänas, the Carivā Pitaka, and the Buddha-Varisa.
(x) The Abhidhamma books, the last of which is the Kathāvatthu, and the carliest probably the Puggalapaññatti.
Law review's this chronological table and concludes that it is too catechetical, too cut and dried and too general to be accepted inspite of its suggestiveness as a sure guide to the determination of the chronology of the Pali Canonical texts.''20 In his concluding chapter he presents liis conclusions on the chronology of the Pali Canonical literature as follows 21 :--
(i) The simple statements of Buddhist doctrine now sound in the identical words in paragraphs or verses recurring in all the books,
(ii) Episodes found in identical words in two or more of the existing books
(iii) The Silas, the Pārāyana group of sixteen poems without the prologue, the Atthaka group of four or sixteen poems, the Sikkhāpadas,
(iv) Digha, Vols. 11 and 111, the Thera-Theri-gāthā, the collection of 500 Jātākas, Suttavibhanga, Patisan.bladāmagga, Puggalapannatti and the Vibhanga.
(v) The Mahāvagga and the Cullavagga, the Pātimokklia completing 227 rules, the Vimänavatthu and Peravafthu, the Dhammapada and the Kathāvatthu.
(vi) The Cullaniddesa, the Mabāniddesa, the Udāna, the Itivuttaka, the Suttanipāta, the Dhātukathā, the Yamaka and the Patthāna.
(vii) The Buddhavanisa, the Cariyapitaka and the Apadana. (viii) The Parivāra pāțba. (ix) The Khuddakapātha.
On the whole we can say that the present Pāli Canonical literature must have been compiled up to the third century