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Art. IV.—The Upāsakajanālaṅkāra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

This book, the work of the Mahāthera Ānanda, is all but unknown in Europe, and though copies exist in Ceylon they have never, I believe, been published. A Sinhalese MS. in the possession of Mr. Easton, of Opawa, Christchurch, N.Z., was recently shown to me by the possessor, to whose courtesy I am indebted for permission to publish the following excerpts, to which I add a few doubtful conjectures.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1901

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References

page 87 note 1 A MS. is in Copenhagen, and has been described by Westergaard in his Codices Havnienses, but briefly and imperfectly. It seems to be very corrupt.

page 89 note 1 Edited by Dr. Morris in the Journal of the Pali Text Society for 1887.

page 90 note 1 The author of the Upāsakajanālaṅkāra, indeed, claims as a merit of his work that it is mahāvihāravāsīnam pavattiphalanissito. This statement admits of being taken as an argument against the identification of our writer with the Ānanda of the Saddhammopāyana, though it is not a very strong one. From the statement of the Kalyāṇī inscription that Ānanda spent fifty-four years in Pagan after founding his Sangha, and died in 1245 a.d., a like inference may be drawn, but hardly with safety.