Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c12.s7.5

c12.s7.5

Aśoka clearly says that these texts had been spoken by the Buddha himself (bhagavatā buddhena bhāsite). They are called Dhamma-paliyāya or Dharmaparyāya which regularly means a Buddhist religious text according to the old tradition of the north. But their identification is doubtful as there is no clue in the inscription to their contents excepting in the case of Lāghulovāde. It is said that this text concerned falsehood (musāvādam adhigicya) and in fact the Rāhulavāda-sūtra as preserved in the Pāli Majjhimanikāya and the northern Madhyamāgama contains a warning to Rāhula against falsehood.