Reuse of Text in Pali Legal Commentaries

Authors

  • Petra Kieffer-Pulz Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.31640

Keywords:

Pāli commentarial legal literature, Samantapāsādikā, Kaṅkhāvitaraṇī, Pālimuttaka-vinayavinicchaya-saṅgaha, Vinaya-lakkhaṇa-rāsī, Pātimokkha-padattha-anuvaṇṇanā

Abstract

We will examine three types of reuse represented in Pali legal literature: (1) unacknowledged borrowings of authoritative opinions and definitions adapted (such as by dropping the references given in the source text) and rearranged (Samantapasadika > Kankhavitarani; fourth to fifth century ce); (2) unacknowledged borrowings of largely unchanged selected text portions being rearranged (Samantapasadika > Vinaya-sangaha; twelfth century CE); and (3) unconnected extracts of unchanged text portions lined up in the sequence of the source text (for instance Patimokkha-padattha-anuvannana > Vinaya-lakkhana-rasi; eighteenth (?) century CE).

References

Baynes, Herbert. 1892. ‘A collection of Kammavacas’. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland: 53–75, 380. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00021511

Clauson, G. L. M. 1906–1907. ‘A new Kammavaca’. Journal of the Pali Text Society V: 1–7.

Cousins, L. S. 2011. ‘Abhidhamma Studies I. Jotipala and the Abhidhamma Anutika’. Thai International Journal of Buddhist Studies II: 1–36.

———. 2013. ‘Abhidhamma Studies II: Sanskrit abhidharma literature of the Maha­viharavasins’. Thai International Journal of Buddhist Studies IV: 1–61.

Crosby, Kate. 2006. ‘Sariputta’s three works on the Samantapasadika’. Journal of the Pali Text Society 28: 49–59.

Dimitrov, Dragomir, 2010. The Bhaiksuki manuscript of the Candralamkara: Study, script tables, and facsimile edition. Cambridge, MA (Harvard Oriental Series, 72).

———. 2016. The Legacy of the Jewel Mind. On the Sanskrit, Pali, and Sinhalese Works by Ratnamati. A Philological Chronicle (Phullalocanavamsa). Napoli (Università degli studi die Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Series Minor, LXXXII).

Freschi, Elisa. 2015. ‘The reuse of texts in Indian philosophy: Introduction’. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 43(2): 85–108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9232-9

Fryer, G. E. 1877. ‘Pali Studies. No. 2. Vuttodaya (Exposition of Metre) by Sangharakkhita Thera’. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 46(1–4): 369–410.

Hettiaratchi, D. E. 1960. ‘Civilisation of the period (Continued): Literature and art’. In: UCHC I.2: 770–778.

von Hinüber, Oskar. 1996a. A Handbook of Pali Literature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, vol. 2).

———. 1996b. ‘Zu einer Göttinger Dissertation über das buddhistische Recht’. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 40: 101–113.

Jayatilaka, D. B. 1965. Simhala Sahitya Lipi. Colombo: Gunasena.

Jayawickrama, N. A. 1972–73. ‘Pali manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 55: 146–76.

Kieffer-Pülz, Petra. 1992. Die Sima. Vorschriften zur Regelung der buddhistischen Gemeindegrenze in älteren buddhistischen Texten. Berlin: Reimer Verlag (Monographien zur indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie, 8).

———. 2012. ‘The law of theft: Regulations in the Theravada Vinaya and the law commentaries’. Journal of the Pali Text Society 31: 1–56.

———. 2013. Verlorene Ganthipadas zum buddhistischen Ordensrecht. Untersuchungen zu den in der Vajirabuddhitika zitierten Kommentaren Dhammasiris und Vajirabuddhis, 3 Bde. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (Veröffentlichungen der Indologischen Kommission, 1).

———. 2014. ‘Quotatives indicating quotations in Pali commentarial literature, II: Quotatives with aha’. Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the Academic Year 2013, XVII: 61–76.

———. 2015a. ‘Quotatives indicating quotations in Pali commentarial literature, I. Iti/ti and quotatives with vuttam’. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 43(4): 427–453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9243-6

———. 2015b. ‘“And there is this stanza in this connection”: The usage of hoti/honti/bhavanti c’ ettha in Pali commentarial literature’. Journal of the Pali Text Society 32: 15–161.

———. 2015c. ‘Vinaya commentarial literature in Pali’. Brill Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. I, ed. Jonathan A. Silk, 430–441. Leiden: Brill.

———. Forthcoming. [Review to:] P. Pecenko (Ed.), Anguttaranikayatika Catuttha Linatthapakasini, Bristol, 2012, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung.

———. In preparation. ‘Who is Who. “Lord of the Speech” (Vacissara) and “Protector of the Buddhist community” (Sangharakkhita)’.

Kieffer-Pülz, Petra and Peters, Anne. 2002. ‘The Vinayasankhepatthakatha. An unknown Vinaya handbook?’. In Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodo Mori, ed. Publication Committee for Buddhist and Indian Studies, 117–127. Tokyo: Kokusai Bukkyoto Kyokai.

Malalasekera, G. P. 1994. The Pali Literature of Ceylon. Colombo [original 1928].

Neri, Chiara. 2015. ‘The case of the Sarasangaha. Reflection on the reuse of texts in medieval Sinhalese Pali literature’. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 43(4): 335–388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9241-8

Obeyesekere, Gananath. 2013. ‘The coming of Brahmin Migrants: The Sudra fate of an Indian elite in Sri Lanka’. Lecture in the Lecture Series – 2013 ‘Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge’ at the Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, New Delhi, 31st January 2013: http://www.sau.ac.in/downloads/obeyesekreFullText.pdf. [Last access 18.03.2015].

Paranavitana, S. 1960. ‘The Dambadeni Dynasty’. In: UCHC I.2: 613–635.

Pecenko, Primoz. 1996–99. Anguttaranikayatika. Catutthasaratthamañjusa, vols. I–III. Oxford: Pali Text Society, 1996, 1997, 1999.

———. 2002. ‘Linatthapakasini and Saratthamañjusa: The Puranatikas and the Tikas on the Four Nikayas’. Journal of the Pali Text Society 27: 61–113.

Peters, Anne. 2000. Burmese Manuscripts 4, Catalogue numbers 736–900, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XXIII, 4).

———. Forthcoming. Birmanische Handschriften 9. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XXIII, 9) .

Ruiz-Falqués, Aleix. 2015. ‘The creative erudition of Chapata Saddhammajotipala, a 15th century grammarian and philosopher form Burma’. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 43(4): 389–426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-014-9242-7

UCHC I.2 = University of Ceylon. History of Ceylon, vol. I: From the earliest times to 1505, part 2: from the Cola Conquest in 1017 to the arrival of Portuguese in 1505, edited by Nicholas Attygalle, et al. Colombo: Ceylon University Press, 1960.

Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. 1900. Catalogue of the Sinhalese Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: Gilbert and Rivington.

Wijeratne, R. P. and Gethin, Rupert, Trans. 2002. Summary of the Topics of Abhidhamma (Abhidhammattha-sangaha) by Anuruddha [and] Exposition of the Topics of Abhidhamma (Abhidhammatthavibhavini) by Sumangala being a commentary to Anuruddha’s Summary of the Topics of Abhidhamma. Oxford: Pali Text Society.

Downloads

Published

2017-01-20

Issue

Section

Reuse in Buddhist śāstric Texts

How to Cite

Kieffer-Pulz, P. (2017). Reuse of Text in Pali Legal Commentaries. Buddhist Studies Review, 33(1-2), 8-45. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.31640