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Kassapa22

Person

『ガンダヴァンサ』が『アナーガタヴァンサ』ほか複数の小規模なパーリ語論書の著者と伝える学僧で、同名の正典作品とは別人物である。

According to the Gandhavaṃsa (p.61) he was the author of the Anāgatavaṃsa and also of the Mohavicchedanī, the Vimaticchedanī and the Buddhavaṃsa. This Buddhavaṃsa is evidently not the canonical work of the same name. The Sāsanavaṃsadīpa (Verse 1204, see also 1221) says that a Kassapa, an inhabitant of Coḷa, was the author of a Vimativinodanī. The Sāsanavaṃsa (p.33; see also P.L.C.160) calls this a Subcommentary on the Vinaya (Vinayaṭīkā) and the author an inhabitant of the Damiḷa country. The Mohavicchedanī is there described as a lakkhaṇagandha (a treatise on grammar?) and is ascribed to another Kassapa.

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