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The Dhammapada: With introductory essays, Pali text, English translation and notes is a 1950 book written by philosopher and (later) President of India, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975), about the Dhammapada, an important Buddhist scripture.
The Dhammapada (Pali: धम्मपद; Sanskrit: धर्मपद, romanized: Dharmapada) is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. [1] The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
The book also contains a substantial overall introduction of about 70 pages, [3] together with introductory notes to each of the Dhammapada 's 26 chapters. English-language editions have also been published in the UK and India, and a re-translation of the full book has been published in German. [1] and Korean. [2] [4]
The surviving Sri Lankan version is the most complete, [9] but was extensively redacted about 1,000 years after Buddha's death, in the 5th or 6th-century CE. [10] The earliest textual fragments of canonical Pali were found in the Pyu city-states in Burma dating only to the mid-5th to mid-6th century CE.
Comparatively, the most common version of the Dhammapada, in Pali, has 423 verses in 26 chapters. [3] Comparing the Udānavarga , Pali Dhammapada and the Gandhari Dharmapada, Brough (2001) identifies that the texts have in common 330 to 340 verses, 16 chapter headings and an underlying structure.
The Khuddaka Nikāya (lit. ' Minor Collection ') is the last of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhism.
The Saṃyutta Nikāya ("Connected Discourses" or "Kindred Sayings") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the third of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Pitaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that compose the Pali Tipitaka of Theravada Buddhism.
His Latin translation of the Dhammapada was published in 1855 with a new edition in 1900. It formed the basis for the first complete translation of this text into English, by philologist Max Müller in the Sacred Books of the East , a 50-volume set published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910.