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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
bnt a conbination of a Sitta Nipata, a Dhammapada and a Jātaka Book. We subjoin a table in illustration of the point:
Udanavarga
Chap.
1 Impermanency
II Kena
Other tests ... Salla Sutta (S. X. III. 9) + Da aratha
Jataka + Mangapakkha Jutaka + Jara.
vagga (Dhp.) ... Kāmasutta (S. N. IV. 1) + Kama
Jätaka + Piyavagga (Dhp.) ... Subhasita Sutta (s. X. III. 3) + Koka.
lisa Sutra (S. N. III. 10) + Puppha.
ragga (Dbp.) + Nirayavagga (Dbp.) ... Craga Sutta (8. N. I. 1) + Bhikkhu.
vagga (Dhp.)
,
vill Speech ...
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Similarly the Sutta Nipāta and the Jātaka Book can be pointed out as canonical sources of most of the additional verses in Prakrit, c.9., the additional verses in the Bhikhuvaya are similar to those in the Uraya Sutta (S. N. 1.,), while those in the Jaravaga presuppose the Salla Sutta (S. W. III. 9) and such Jātakas as the Dasaratha, the Ayoghara and the Magapakkha.
The Pāli Dhammapada (and a posteriori ihe Fa-kheu-king original) differs from the Prakrit text and the Udāpavarga, inasmuch as it does not contain a single verse of which the canonical source is no other than the Sutta Nipāta as we now have it. For instance, its Brāhmaṇavagga is mainly constituted of verses from the Vāsettha Sutta which is incorporated not only in the Sutta Nipäta, but also it the Majjhima Nikāya. The Nāgavagga contains a few verses which can be traced in the Khaggavisāṇasutta, but seeing that this particular sutta has been commented upon in the Cullaniddesa along with the poems of the Pārāyana Group, one may be justified in thinking that it existed as a separate poein before its incoporation in the ist book of the Sutta Nipāta. At any rate, as we proceed from the Pali Dhammapada towards the Udānavarya, it becomes increasjugly clear that the Sutta Nipata came to occupy a inore and more prominent place in the later texts.
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