Dear Yong Peng & Dimitry,

What is the the Pali name of the book that contains the
Dhammapada stories?
In A Handbook of Paali Literature, Oskar Von Hinüber refers
to the Dhammapada.t.thakathaa and attributes it to Thera
Kumaarakassapa, an otherwise unknown person who translated
the work into Pali from the Sinhalese.

The best to you,
Paul O Cuana

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <ypong001@...> wrote:
> Dear Dimitry and friends,
>
> as far as I know, the work is compiled by Ven. Weragoda Sarada. I
> understand the stories by Daw Mya Tin is an abridged version. But,
to
> me, Ven. Weragoda's version is similarly short. The source is the
> commentary written by Buddhaghosa.
>
> I will download the illustrated version tomorrow at school. The
> english verses are contained in that version. I agree Daw's verses
is
> clear and correct representation.
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry A. Ivakhnenko wrote:
> >There are many good stuff for download from Buddhanet:
> >http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks_s.htm
> >The book "Treasury of Truth - Dhammapada" is a very good
> >book, it contains the pali verses and explanation of the
> >pali terms, english translation of the verses, and the
> >stories accompanying each verse.
>
> Do you know who is the real translator of the stories?
> The version at http://web.ukonline.co.uk/buddhism/dmpada.htm by Daw
> Mya Tin seems more like original work to me, and the translation of
> the verses is better.