Dāṭhāvedhaka
TextThe name shared by two elders mentioned in the Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā who, about fifty years after the Sāgalikā seceded from the Dhammaruci school, founded their own school by combining elements borrowed from both traditions.
The Mahāvaṃsa Ṭīkā mentions (MT.176) two theras of this name, one a resident of the Kurundacullaka-pariveṇa, and the other of the Kolambahālaka-pariveṇa.
They lived in the time of Bhāgineyya Dāṭhopatissa (see Hatthadāṭha), and about fifty years after the secession of the Sāgalikā from the Dhammaruci-nikāya they set up a school of their own, in which they borrowed the Ubhato-vihaṅga from the Dhammarucikā and the Khandaka and Parivāra from the Sāgalikas.
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