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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
the foregoing
must briefly state the results obtained from investigation :
Text.
Probable date of compilation.
ali Dhammapada... (a Stharirarada work).
Between the 4th and 3rd centary
B.C.
(2) Fa-kheo-king original in Mixed 2nd century, B.C.
Sanskrit. (a Sautrántika work).
(3) Mahyastn Dhammapada
2nd or lot century, B.C. (a Mah&sa öghika work). (4) Prakrit Dhammapada ... 1st century B.C. or A.D.
(another Mah&sadghika work). (5) Text portion of the Chuh-yau-king. Ist or 2nd centory, A.D.
original or the older edition of the Udinavarga (a Vaibhā. pika work).
(6) Fa-kheu.king (a Chinese recen. Circa 223 A.D.
Bion).
... Ath or 5th century, AD.
(7) Ud&navarga or
the later edition of No. 5.
Concluding Remarks.-The total result stated above can be further tested by a general history of the Tripitaka dealing particularly with the genesis and importance of the Dhammapada texts. This important subject has been separately dealt with in a supplementary section of this work. There it has been shown that M. Senart's ipfereuce as to the existence of a Dhammapada text older than the Pāli from a particular verse in Prakrit which, in his opinion, contains expressions better or more appropriate than those in the corresponding Pali verse, is historically incorrect. The legitimate inference in such cases would be rather to say that that particular verse in Mixed Sanskrit or in some such language is older than its counterpart included in the Pali Dhammapada. We need not be surprised to find that the Dhamınapada or the Udānavarga is associated with the Játakas and Avadānas or that the works of the Jataka
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