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Palm-leaf manuscript containing bi-lingual Atthakatha, with Pali text and Sinhalese translation. Sri Lanka, 1756. British Library. Aṭṭhakathā (Pali for explanation, commentary) [1] refers to Pali-language Theravadin Buddhist commentaries to the canonical Theravadin Tipitaka.
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Atthasālinī (Pali) is a Buddhist text composed by Buddhaghosa in the Theravada Abhidharma tradition. The title has been translated as "The Expositor" [1] or "Providing the Meaning". [2]
It was written based on prior ancient compilations known as the Atthakatha (sometimes Sinhalaatthakatha), which were commentaries written in Sinhala. [ 10 ] [ page needed ] An earlier document known as the Dipavamsa (4th century CE) "Chronicles of the Island" is much simpler and contains less information than the Mahavamsa and was probably ...
The Pali Text Society in 1972 requested him to become their editor for the 50 volume publication of the Atthakatha, the year before he died in 1973 at age 85. [ 1 ] Many did not realize that he was a Christian and thought he was a former Buddhist monk because of his knowledge of Buddhism.
Warder, in his examination of the Paṭisambhidāmagga Gaṇṭhipada [4] in the Introduction to the Path of Discrimination, notes: “The Gaṇṭhipada (p. 106), however, provides the positive information that this Peṭaka is a book of the Mahiṃsāsakas, an aṭṭhakathā ("commentary") made for the purpose of the Suttantapiṭaka.
The Dīpavaṃsa [1] (दीपवंस, Pali: [diːpɐˈʋɐ̃sɐ], "Chronicle of the Island") is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka.The chronicle is believed to be compiled from Atthakatha and other sources around the 3rd to 4th century CE.
A translation by William Pruitt (1998) has been published by the Pali Text Society as Commentary on the Verses of the Theris: Therigatha-atthakatha : Paramatthadipani VI. [ 12 ] Furthermore, there is a Theravada commentary on the Aṅguttara Nikāya which provides detailed histories of the disciples of the Buddha, including their past lives and ...