Dear Jim,
Both Petra and I are currently working on articles wholly or partly
concerned with the disciples of Sāriputta of Poḷonnaruva; so probably
neither of us will want to say too much about that yet.
However, I take Mahābhidhāna as others have done in the past i.e. as a
descriptive epithet: 'with the name Mahā'. In other words Mahābhidhāna
is a poetic way of expressing Mahānāma. Otherwise one could take it as
meaning 'having a famous name'. His name would then most probably be
Upatissa or Sāriputta or perhaps Moggallāna.
Lance
> Dear Petra,
>
> Thanks for the quick response and quote from Sp-ṭ. I'm delighted to see that
> Paṭis-gp is older than Vācissara's ṭīkā. I found a Mahābhidhāna (only once
> in CST4) near the end of Paṭis-a, presumably the same one mentioned in
> Paṭis-gp.
>
> Here's the Paṭis-a verse:
>
> Therenettha nivasatā, samāpitāyaṃ mahābhidhānena;
> Tatiye vasse cutito, moggallānassa bhūpatino.
>
> So, he completed something in the third year after the death of Moggallāna.
>
> I figured out that the upāsako in the Paṭis-gp verse is the one who made the
> request (tena satīmatā being the correlative of yo upāsako possibly named
> Dvicakkhu. In verse 3 I have trouble with vuttassa so sāvakamuttamena. Is it
> sāvakam (acc.) uttamena or sāvaka-m-uttamena?
>
> Best,
> Jim
>
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> From: "Petra Kieffer-Pülz kiepue@... [palistudy]"
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>
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> for tonight, the Paṭis-gp is not by Vācissara, but it is earlier than
> Sāriputta of Poḷonnaruva who quotes the Paṭis-gp available in the Thai
> edition mentioned by you as well as in a Sinhalese and a Burmese edition.
> Sāriputta (Sp-ṭ Be I 104,19-21 quotes the following sentence from the
> Paṭis-gp):
> tattha Paṭisambhidāgaṇṭhipade tāva idaṃ vuttaṃ: „sayaṃ
> vuttadhammakkhandhānaṃ bhikkhuto gahite yeva saṅgahetvā evam āhā ti
> daṭṭhabbaṃ.“ (Paṭis-gp Ce p. 23).
>
>
> Best,
> Petra
>
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Best Wishes,
Lance
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