Sāratthamañjūsā

AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA · Ekakanipāta · volume 1 of 4

The Sāratthamañjūsā, the subcommentary on the Aṅguttara Nikāya commentary, covering the Book of Ones.

Sāriputta is the first author in this collection who can be dated to a reign rather than to a bracket. He worked in Ceylon under Parakkamabāhu I — 1153–1186 CE — in a building the king had raised for him inside the Jetavana monastery, and his subcommentaries open by naming that king and his reunification of the Saṅgha. His teacher was the Anuthera Sumedha.

Two neighbouring attributions do not survive inspection, and it is worth knowing which. Hinüber holds that this is the only Suttanta subcommentary actually by Sāriputta. Dhammapāla's Aṅguttara subcommentary, he says, “if it ever existed, does not seem to survive” (Hinüber 1996, p. 167, §357); and the Sāratthamañjūsā sometimes reported on the Dīgha, Majjhima and Saṃyutta subcommentaries “seems to be a fiction” (Hinüber 1996, p. 173, §376).

Hinüber: only this one Suttanta subcommentary is actually Sāriputta's. Dhammapāla's own Aṅguttara subcommentary "if it ever existed, does not seem to survive"; and the supposed Sāratthamañjūsā on the Dīgha, Majjhima and Saṃyutta subcommentaries "seems to be a fiction" (Hinüber 1996, p. 173, §§375-376).

How it ends

Iti manorathapūraṇiyā aṅguttaranikāya-aṭṭhakathāya

Ekakanipātavaṇṇanāya anuttānatthadīpanā samattā.

Paṭhamo bhāgo niṭṭhito.

SourcesHinüber 1996, pp. 167, 172–173, §§357, 373, 376.

Layer: Ṭīkā — sub-commentary
Collection: AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA · volume 1 of 4
On: Ekakanipāta
Written by: SāriputtaHinüber 1996 / Norman 1983
When: 1153–1186 CEHinüber 1996, p. 172 §373
Pali text: Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
English: Complete in draft, not yet reviewed · 1,173 paragraphs over 30 pages