The Relation of the Saccasankhepatika Called Saratthasalini to the Vinayavinicchayatika Called Vinayasaratthasandipani
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https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.36760Keywords:
Līnatthappakāsanī, Saccasaṅkhepaṭīkā, Sāratthasālinī, Sīmālaṅkārasaṅgaha, Thūpavaṃsa, Uttaravinicchayaṭīkā, Vācissara Thera, Vinayasāratthasandīpanī, VinayavinicchayaṭīkāAbstract
The present contribution suggests the common authorship of three Pali commentaries of the twelfth/thirteenth centuries CE, namely the Vinayavinicchayatika called Vinayasaratthasandipani (less probably Vinayatthasarasandipani), the Uttaravinicchayatika called Linatthappakasani, and the Saccasankhepatika called Saratthasalini. The information collected from these three commentaries themselves and from Pali literary histories concerning these three texts leads to the second quarter of the thirteenth century CE as the period of their origination. The data from parallel texts explicitly stated to having been written by Vacissara Thera in the texts themselves render it possible to establish with a high degree of probability Vacissara Thera as their author.
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