A Handbook of Pali Literature

272 Pages·2000·8.696 MB·English

by  Oskar Von Hinuber

A Handbook of Literature
P~ili
Indian Philology
and
South Asian Studies
Edited by
Albrecht Wezler and Michael Witzel
Volume 2
Walter de Gruyter . Berlin· New York
1996
Oskar von Hiniiber
A Handbook
of Piili Literature
Walter de Gruyter . Berlin· New York
1996
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A handbook of Pilli literature I Oskar von Hiniiber.
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I. Pilli literature-History and criticism. 2. Buddhist litera
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Foreword
The original inspiration for this book goes back to early 1991,
when Charles Hallisey invited me while staying in Chicago to write a
long chapter on Pi:ili literature for his planned "Handbook of Theravii
da Literature". When that plan did not materialize, I decided to pub
lish the section on Piili literature separately.
This original plan has left its mark on both the structure and the
length of the present book. As far as possible, I have attempted to
remain within the space limits proposed for the projected handbook,
despite the fact that it soon became clear that it would be impossible
to deal exhaustively with Piili literature within those limits. As a result,
my presentation is at times extremely brief. Even after deciding to
publish the study separately, I persisted with this brevity in order to
avoid stylistic inconsistency.
My contribution to the planned handbook was to cover the whole
of Piili literature, with the exception of titles listed by H. Smith in the
Epilegomena to the Critical Piili Dictionary under 2.9.22 "Medicine",
2.9.23 "Law", and 5. "Philology". These were to be dealt with by
J. Liyanaratne, A. Huxley, and O. Pind respectively. Consequently,
they are not treated in the present survey.
Despite the limitations of space, I have attempted to deal with as
many titles as possible, in order to give a survey of Piili literature as
comprehensive as possible, excluding the group of texts mentioned
above. Some of the titles presented in the chapters on later Piili litera
ture have not been previously noted in modern Western studies.
Although it has proved impossible to include all known Piili texts espe
cially those extant only in manuscript form, the present handbook
supplements the Epilegomena to the Critical Piili Dictionary.
The selection of later Piili texts is necessarily somewhat unsystem
atic, having been dictated by arbitrary circumstances such as the acces
sibility of printed editions, or of information on the contents of manu
scripts. I generally decided to include new or hardly known titles, rath
er than exclude them only to follow excessively rigid guidelines. At
vi Foreword
any rate up to the subcommentaries written in the 12th century all
Piili texts were included.
The sequence of treatment of titles is largely based on that of
the Epilegomena, which itself mostly follows a traditional Theraviida
classification. References to editions and translations already listed in
the Epilegomena are given in abbreviated form, while references to
new ones, i. e. those appearing only after 1948, the date of the Epilego
mena, are given in full. This bibliographical information precedes the
treatment of the respective Piili texts and is not repeated in the biblio
graphy.
The preparation of this handbook began four years ago, when I
gave a series of lectures on Piili literature at the University of Freiburg
. im Breisgau during four terms ("Wintersemester" 1992/3 to "Som
mersemester" 1994). For this survey the lengthy manuscript that
resulted from these lectures has been abbreviated to approximately
one third of its original length. I hope to prepare a much fuller history
of Piili literature in future.
The present handbook has benefitted considerably from being
read by Th.Oberlies, Freiburg, H. Bechert, Gottingen, and his pupils
U. Husken and P. Kieffer-Piilz, especially the latter, who checked the
manuscript meticulously and made a number of valuable suggestions.
The English was corrected by Jose Cabez6n, University of Den
ver, Colorado (§ 1-198) during his stay in Hamburg, and by Paul
Skandera (§ 199-225) and Birgit Felleisen (§ 226-450), pupils of one
of my colleagues at Freiburg, Christian Mair. Peter Skilling, Bangkok,
provided me with references and books from Thailand otherwise inac
cessible or difficult to find, and S. Hori, Freiburg, translated Japanese
material for me. My sincerest thanks are due to all of them for their
ready and invaluable help.
Lastly, I am deeply obliged to my friends A. Wezler, Hamburg,
and M. Witzel, Harvard University, for accepting the manuscript as
part of the new series "Indian Philology and South Asian Studies".
Oxford, 1.0th February 1996 Oskar v. Hinuber
Table of Contents
Foreword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
I. Introduction § 1-9 ......................... .
II. The Theravada Canon § 10-155 ......... .
7
II.1 The Basket ofthe Discipline § 12-45 ......... . 8
11.1.1 The SuttavibhaIiga and the Patimokkhasutta § 14-
27 ............................ ' .... . 9
11.1.1.1 The Patimokkhasutta § 15-21 ............. . 9
11.1.1.2 The SuttavibhaIiga § 22-27 ............... . 13
11.1.2 The Khandhaka § 28 - 39. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11.1.3 The Parivara § 40-42 ................... . 21
111.4 The Abhayagiri-Vinaya § 43 -45 ............ . 22
11.2 The Basket of the Teaching § 46-128 . . . . . . . . .. 23
11.2.1 The Dighanikaya § 52-62 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 26
11.2.2 The Majjhimanikaya § 63-68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 32
11.2.3 The Salllyuttanikaya § 69-75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 35
11.2.4 The AIiguttaranikaya § 76-83 .............. 38
11.2.5 The Khuddakanikaya § 84-128 ............. 41
11.2.5.1 The Khuddakapatha § 86-87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 43
The Paritta § 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 44
11.2.5.2 The Dhammapada § 88-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 44
11.2.5.3 The Udana § 91 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 46
11.2.5.4 The Itivuttaka § 92-93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 46
11.2.5.5 The Suttanipata § 94-99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 48
11.2.5.6,7 The Vimanavatthu and the Petavatthu § 100-102 .. 50
11.2.5.8,9 The Thera- and the Therigatha § 103-108. . . . . .. 51
11.2.5.10 The Jataka § 109-115. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 54
The Nidanakatha § 111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 55
11.2.5.11 The Niddesa § 116-118. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 58
11.2.5.12 The Patisambhidamagga § 119-120 . . . . . . . . . .. 59
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11.2.5.13 The Apadana § 121-123 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 60
1I.2.5.l4 The Buddhavamsa § 124-125. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 62
11.2.5.15 The Cariyapitaka § 126-128 ............... 63
11.3 The Basket of Things Relating to tbe Teaching § 129-
155 ................................ 64
11.3.1 The DhammasaIigaQI § 132 -137 . . . . . . . . . . . .. 65
11.3.2 The VibhaIiga § 138-139. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 68
11.3.3 The Dhiitukatha § 140 ................... 69
11.3.4 The Puggalapafifiatti § 141-143 . . . . . . . . . . . .. 69
11.3.5 The Kathiivatthu § 144-151 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 70
11.3.6 The Yamaka § 152-153 .................. 73
11.3.7 The Patthiina § 154-155 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 74
III. The Parac anonical Texts § 156 - 180 . . . . . . . . . .. 76
III.l The Suttasamgaha § 157 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 76
111.2 The NettippakaraQa § 158-166. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 77
111.3 The Petakopadesa § 167 - 171 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 80
IlIA The Milindapafiha (with commentary) -§ 172-180 .. 82
MilindatIka § 180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 86
IV. The Chronicles § 181-202 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 87
IV. 1 Dlpavamsa and Mahavamsa (with commentary)
§ 182-188 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 87
Dlpavamsa § 183-184 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 89
Mahiivamsa § 185-187 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 90
Mahavamsatlkii § 188 .................. 92
IV.2 The Extended Mahavamsa § 189 . . . . . . . . . . . .. 92
IV. 3 VamsamalivilasinI § 190. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 93
IV.4 Mahiibodhivamsa § 191 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 93
IV.5 Thupavamsa § 192 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 94
IV. 6 Dathavamsa § 193 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 94
IV.7 Nalatadhiituvamsa § 194 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 95
IV.8 Chakesadhiituvamsa § 195 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 95
IV.9 Hatthavanagallavihiiravamsa § 196-167 . . . . . . .. 96
IV.lO SamantakutavaQQana § 198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 97
IV.l1 SaIigItivamsa § 199. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 97
IV.12 Anagatavamsa § 200. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 98
Table of Contents IX
IY.13 Dasabodhisattauddesa § 201 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 98
IY.14 Dasabodhisattuppattikatha and Dasabodhisattavidhi
§ 202 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 98
V. The Commentaries § 203 - 322 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 100
Buddhaghosa § 207 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 102
V.l The Commentaries on the Vinaya § 208-225 . . . .. 103
V.l.l The Samantapasadika § 208-220. . . . . . . . . . . .. 103
Y.l.2 The KailkhavitaraI)I § 221-225 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 109
V.2 The Commentaries on the Suttapitaka § 226-307 .. 112
Y.2.1 The Commentaries on the First Four Nikayas (Sumail
galavilasinI, PapaficasudanI, ManorathapiiraI)I, Sarat
thappakasinI) § 226-244 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 112
V.2.2 Vimuttimagga and Visuddhimagga (with commentaries)
§ 245-250 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 123
V.2.3 The Commentaries on the Khuddakanikaya § 251 -
307 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 126
V.2.3.l The Paramatthajotika I § 252-254. . . . . . . . . . .. 127
V.2.3.2 The Paramatthajotika II § 255 - 259 . . . . . . . . . .. 129
V.2.3.3 JatakatthavaQI)ana and Dhammapadanhakatha
§ 260-269 ............................ 131
JatakatthavaQI)ana § 261 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 131
Dhammapadatthakatha § 262 - 269. . . . . . . . . . .. 132
V.2.3.4 Apocryphal Jatakas § 270-271 . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 135
Pafifiasajataka § 270 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 135
KosalabimbavaI)I)ana § 271 ................ 136
y'2.3.5 Dhammapala's Commentaries: The ParamatthadlpanI
§ 272-286 ............................ 136
Udana- and Itivuttaka-atthakatha § 277 - 279 . . . .. 138
Vimanavatthu-and Petavatthu-atthakatha § 280-282 139
Theragatha- and TherIgatha-atthakatha § 283-284 140
Cariyapitaka-atthakatha § 285. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 141
Dhammapala's date and his relation to other commen
taries § 286 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 141
V.2.3.6 The Saddhammapajjotika § 287-290 ... . . . . . .. 142
V.2.3.7 The SaddhammapakasinI § 291-297 . . . . . . . . . .. 143
V.2.3.8 The MadhuratthavilasinI § 298-301 . . . . . . . . . .. 145
Y.2.3.9 The VisuddhajanavilasinI § 302-304 . . . . . . . . . .. 147