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Vācissara2

Person

수많은 문법 주석서의 저자로 알려져 있으며, 팔리어 투파왐사와 여러 신할라어 저작의 저자였을 가능성이 있는, 사리풋타 장로의 제자인 스리랑카 승려.

A monk of Sri Lanka, pupil of Sāriputta Thera.

Numerous works are assigned to him, among them Commentaries on the various books of grammar: the Sambandhacintā-ṭīkā, the Subodhālaṅkāra-ṭīkā, and the Vuttodayavivaraṇa.

He also wrote the Sumaṅgalapasādanī on the Khuddasikkhā and a commentary on the Moggallānavyākarana (P.L.C. 204).

He seems also to have written the Pāḷi Thūpavaṃsa and several books in Singhalese. P.L.C.217; also Gv.62, 71.

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