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Sāratthadīpanī
VINAYA PIṬAKA · Bāhiranidāna · volume 1 of 3
The Sāratthadīpanī, Sāriputta's subcommentary on the Samantapāsādikā, opening on the Bāhiranidāna — the external history of the Vinaya.
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.
This is the Vinaya side of his work, and the layer it belongs to is exact: Buddhaghosa's Samantapāsādikā explains the Vinaya, and the Sāratthadīpanī explains the Samantapāsādikā.
The subcommentary on the Samantapāsādikā. The author gives its full title as Līnasāratthadīpanī. Sāriputta's authorship is confirmed both by the nigamana and by his own pupil, who names him as his teacher in the Vinayavinicchaya subcommentary (Hinüber 1996, p. 172, §373).
How it ends
Iti samantapāsādikāya vinayaṭṭhakathāya sāratthadīpaniyaṃ
Verañjakaṇḍavaṇṇanā samattā.
Paṭhamo bhāgo niṭṭhito.
SourcesHinüber 1996, p. 172, §373.
- Layer
- Ṭīkā — sub-commentary
- Collection
- VINAYA PIṬAKA · volume 1 of 3
- On
- Bāhiranidāna
- Written by
- SāriputtaHinüber 1996 / Norman 1983
- When
- 1153–1186 CEHinüber 1996, p. 172 §373
- Pali text
- Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
- English
- In progress