Sāratthamañjūsā

AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA · Aṭṭhaka–Ekādasakanipāta · volume 4 of 4

The Sāratthamañjūsā on the Aṅguttara commentary, covering the Books of Eights to Elevens.

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).

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

Layer: Ṭīkā — sub-commentary
Collection: AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA · volume 4 of 4
On: Aṭṭhaka–Ekādasakanipāta
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 · 865 paragraphs over 22 pages