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canon in Mixed Sanskrit. But the difference between the two redactions was not merely that of language. The two redactions differed in manner as well as matter, so much so that the names of the texts of the Vaibhāșika canon had to be changed in order to keep them distinct froin their Sautrāntika originals. This fact is countenanced by the evidence of the original of the text portion of the Chul-yau-king which was but a Sanskrit copy of the Dhammapada with 900 verses and 33 chapters, compiled on the basis of the Fa-kheu-king original with 500 verses and 26 chapters and as M. Sylvain Lévi seems to think, its title was Udānavarga.' We cannot persuade ourselves to believe that Arya Dharmatrāta who wrote the Samyuktábhidharma Sastra was really the compiler of the original of the Fa.khen-king for the simple reason that he was a native of Gandhāra, while the latter, described as maternal uncle of Vasmutra, was probably a native of the Middle Country. We are also tempted to think that the Sanskrit text with 900 verses was amplified, though slightly, in the Udanavarga by an individual-Bhadanta Dharmatrāła or whatever the name may be, who flourished about the time of Asarga and Vagubandhu, i.e., during the 4th or 5th century A.D. Thus we incline to regard the Buddbist Council in Kaniska's time as a landmark in the history of Sarvåstivāda Buddhism indicating a twofold transition : (1) that of the Sarvâstivāda literature from a Sautrāntika or Canonical stage to a Vaibhäşika or Scholastic, and (2) that of the Sarvâstivāda canon from a Mixed Sanskrit redaction to one in Classical Sanskrit.
Beal is doubly wrong in regarding the Pali Dhammapaya as technically a Sautrāntika work and the original of the Fa-kheu-king as a Vaibhāșika text, compiled during the reign of Kaniska. Our contention is that the latter work was technically a Sautrūntika text in Mixed Sanskrit, substancially the same as the Pāli. If its author Arya Dharmatrata was uncle to Vasumitra, its compilation must be referred to a
"L'Appram&davargu, 11. 11 f. (J.A., xx, 1912, p. 209 ).
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