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5. The recital in the usual sara-bhañña (or intonation, see Kullavagga V, 3) of such a 'portion for recitation' would occupy in time about half-an-hour.
6. Spence Hardy informs us in his Eastern Monachism' (p. 168) that the Digha Nikâya contains 64, the Magghima Nikaya 8o, the Samyutta Nikaya Ioo, and the Anguttara Nikaya 120 Bhânavaras. In fact it is only a few of the longer Suttas in the first two collections which are actually divided into Bhânavâras in the MSS.; and only the longer Nipätas in the Anguttara. There are no Bhânavāras in the Eka- and DukaNipâlas of that collection; and there are also none in the Samyutta Nikâya, and none in any of the books of the later literature contained in the Abhidhamma Pitaka (including all those in the Khuddaka Nikâya) as yet published.
7. The division into Bhânavâras is not made use of in many books of the Pitakas themselves, or in the fifth-century commentaries of Buddhaghosa and others. In the Sutta-vibharga it is only used in Pârâgikas I-III, and in the Parivâra not at all. When Spence Hardy says therefore (loc. cit. p. 172) that the Pitakas and commentaries combined contain 5347 Bhânavâras, he must be referring to a mere calculation and not to the actual use of the MSS. On the other hand, the fact of Bhanavaras being used in the Dipavamsa and the Khudda-sikkhâ may possibly afford some clue to the age in which those works were composed.
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