Sāratthadīpanī

VINAYA PIṬAKA · Pācittiyakaṇḍa · volume 3 of 3

The Sāratthadīpanī on the Samantapāsādikā, covering the Pācittiyakaṇḍa.

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

Sāratthadīpanī nāma vinayaṭīkā niṭṭhitā.

SourcesHinüber 1996, p. 172, §373.

Layer: Ṭīkā — sub-commentary
Collection: VINAYA PIṬAKA · volume 3 of 3
On: Pācittiyakaṇḍa
Written by: SāriputtaHinüber 1996 / Norman 1983
When: 1153–1186 CEHinüber 1996, p. 172 §373
Pali text: Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana (CST4)
English: In progress