Pali Text Society 1988 Volume Xii – K.r Norman (eng)

Pali Text Society 1988

Volume XII

Edited by K.R Norman

The study of the sources is one of the most important and basic subjects in the field of Pali Atthakatha literature. The source material for this literature can be classified into six main groups. 

The Pali Atthakathas which have been transmitted down to the present time by the Mahavihara fratenity of the Theravada school as its own texts frequency quote or refer to the views of “some” or “others”. These are almost always referred to in the plural form, which indicates a certain group, not a particular individual. The number of references is altogether about six hundred. The names of these “others” are not usually given. Although the majority of them are unknown, some can be identified, through comments in the Tikas, the commentaries on the Atthakathas. Those which are so identified can be divided into three groups. 

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