Re: Brahmajaala commentaries

Am 25.10.2010 um 22:18 schrieb Jim Anderson:

> Dear Members,
>
> I thought I'd follow up on Brother Noah Yuttadhammo's postings from 
> the
> Brahmajālasutta and translation with a look at what the 
> commentaries have to
> say. There are three commentaries (1 aṭṭhakathā and 2 ṭīkā-
> s on the same)
> available to us as follows:
>
> 1. Sumaṅgalavilāsinī (Sv) or Dīghanikāyaṭṭhakathā by 
> Buddhaghosa (5th
> cent.).
> 2. Sumaṅgalavilāsinīpurāṇaṭīkā (Sv-pṭ) by Dhammapāla 
> (7th cent. ?).
> 3. Sādhuvilāsinī (Sv-nṭ) by Ñāṇābhivaṃsa (completed in 
> 2345 BE or ca. 1801
> AD). This is an abhinavaṭīkā or a new ṭīkā on Sv and builds 
> on Sv-pṭ,
> the old ṭīkā.
>
> There is a third ṭīkā (Sv-ṭ) by Sāriputta of Poḷonnaruva 
> but seems to be no
> longer extant.
>
>

According to the research by Primoz Pecenko the commentary by 
Sāriputta is not extant in printed form, but in seven Sinhalese 
script manuscripts (Journal of the Pali Text Society Vol. 27, 2002, 
79f., and Vol. 30, 2009, 24).

Best wishes,
Petra Kieffer-Puelz

> The parts that deal directly with the Brahmajālasutta add up to 693 
> pages as
> follows:
>
> Sv I 26-131 (PTS); Sv-pṭ I 43-267 (PTS); Sv-nṭ I 139-500 (Be) 
> [106+225+362 =
> 693 pages.]
>
> The parts preceding the commentarties on the Brahmajālasutta relate 
> to
> Buddhaghosa's introductory verses and the Nidānakathā.
>
> At Sv I 2, at the beginning of the Nidānakathā, is an interesting 
> paragraph
> briefly explaining the structure of the Dīghanikāya (= Dīghāgama):
>
> Tattha dīghāgamo nāma sīlakkhandhavaggo, mahāvaggo, 
> pāthikavaggoti vaggato
> tivaggo hoti; suttato catuttiṃsasuttasaṅgaho. Tassa vaggesu
> sīlakkhandhavaggo ādi, suttesu brahmajālaṃ. Brahmajālassāpi 
> ‘‘evaṃ me suta’’ntiādikaṃ
> āyasmatā ānandena paṭhamamahāsaṅgītikāle vuttaṃ 
> nidānamādi. -- Sv I 2
>
> Translation:
> Therein, the Dighāgama, by name, according to vaggas has three 
> vaggas as
> follows: Sīlakkhandhavagga, Mahāvagga, Pāthikavagga; according to 
> suttas,
> (the āgama) comprises thirty-four suttas. Among its vaggas, the
> Sīlakkhandhavagga is the first one, among (its) suttas, the 
> Brahmajāla (is
> the first one). The source or nidāna beginning with "evaṃ me 
> sutaṃ", which
> was spoken by the Venerable Ananda at the time of the First Great 
> Recital,
> is the beginning of the Brahmajāla(sutta).
>
> I will follow up on this with an explanation by the two ṭīkā-s.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jim Anderson
>
>

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