SV: Thai Pali

Dear freinds,

The recently published Thai edition of the ~naanodayappakara.nam contains a
lot of verses put in the mouth of the Buddha. I have not been able to trace
them to the canon, though. The study of Pali pseudepigraphy has not begun
yet. It is, of course, quite common in Mahaayaana.

Best regards,

Ole Pind

Bhante,

Honestly, I don't think it goes quite that far in this case; because of the
scholastic background of the monk in question, I would bet that both quotes
most likely come from one or another "lakh sutra" (foundation
text) for the Thai Pali exams.  It makes sense, therefore, that the one
quote exists in the Mangalatthadipani, because it is used as a lakh sutra
for level 9 pali studies.  If I am correct, it is a modern work by a Lanna
scholar, and supposedly takes parts of the tipitaka and puts them together
in a cohesive fashion, based on the maha-mangala sutta.  I am surprised that
the quote is in the Mangalatthadipani but not in the tipitaka itself, since
it is put in the mouth of the Lord Buddha.  I can't imagine the author of
the mangalatthadipani making it up in the modern day and getting away with
it.  Unless he took it in turn from one of the more apocryphal Thai texts.

I'll have to look up myself on the Budsir to see, I guess.  Jim, you didn't
happen to download the page it was on to send to me did you? :)

Best wishes,

Yuttadhammo

nyanatusita wrote:
> Dear Yuttadhammo,
>
> There are many Pali texts around in Thailand which are not part of the
> Pali Canon and are not found on the CSCD, such as apocryphal jaatakas
> (Pa~n~naasa-jaataka, etc), apocryphal suttas, works dealing with
> relics, Thai subcommentaries called yojanaas, anthologies, etc. Quite
> a few of these texts are little known and some maybe even unknown to
> western scholarship. The quotations you  give are likely to come from
> some of those texts.
> Best wishes,
>                          Bh. Nyanatusita
>