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Subodhālaṅkāraṭīkā
The Subcommentary on the Poetics
GRAMMATICAL TRADITION · volume 12 of 13
The subcommentary on Saṅgharakkhita's poetics. Its own colophon calls it a nissaya as well as a ṭīkā: Iti subodhālaṅkāranissaye … Subodhālaṅkāraṭīkā samattā.
The author is an ascription, not a signature. Norman, following Malalasekera and the Gandhavaṃsa, gives it to Vācissara, who is placed in the 1200s CE; nothing in the book states it. The Pali catalogue pairs it with a commentary on the Vuttodaya as two works made by Vācissara of his own motion: the ṭīkā on the Subodhālaṅkāra called Mahāsīmā, and the Vuttodayavivaraṇa. On that account the same scholar explained both of Saṅgharakkhita's technical books, the one on rhetoric and the one on metre. The same Vācissara is credited, again by ascription and again on the authority of a chronicle, with the older subcommentary on the Abhidhammāvatāra in this collection.
How it ends
Iti subodhālaṅkāranissaye
Rasabhāvāvabodho nāma pañcamo paricchedo.
Subodhālaṅkāraṭīkā samattā.
SourcesNorman 1983, p. 168; Hinüber 1996, p. 161, §342; Gandhavaṃsa, in Minayeff 1886, p. 64.
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- ascribed to VācissaraNorman 1983, p. 168; Gandhavaṃsa, in Minayeff 1886, p. 64
- When
- 1200s CE if the ascription to Vācissara holds; unconfirmedNorman 1983, p. 164 n. 309, citing Malalasekera for the date of Vācissara
- Pali text
- Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
- English
- Complete in draft, not yet reviewed · 2,885 paragraphs over 73 pages
- § 1–2,885
- Subodhālaṅkāra with its Ṭīkā and Nissayapakaraṇavisesa · translated
Three layers interleaved verse by verse — the root text, the Mahāsāmi ṭīkā and a nissaya — so they cannot be separated by paragraph range.
NumberingParagraph numbers of the Pali source file (CST4), as held in the translation database.
- Chapter One: the Understanding of Faults.1. Dosāvabodha paṭhamapariccheda
- 2. Commentary on the Chapter on the Understanding of the Avoidance of Faults.2. Dosaparihārāvabodhaparicchedavaṇṇanā
- 3. The Chapter on the Understanding of Qualities.3. Guṇāvabodhapariccheda
- 4. The Chapter on the Understanding of the Ornaments of Sense4. Atthālaṅkārāvabodhapariccheda
- 5. The Chapter on the Understanding of the Emotions5. Bhāvāvabodhapariccheda
- The Exposition of the Abiding StatesṬhāyībhāvaniddesa