A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s1.60

v2.c19.s1.60

³ Doubts against the Abhidhammapiṭaka are justifiable, because, with the exception of the Vibhajjavādins, only the Sarvāstivādins have a corresponding Abhidharmapiṭaka, and the latter contains totally different texts from the Pāli Abhidhammapiṭaka. Cf. *La Vallée Poussin*, Bouddhisme, p. 44; *Farquhar*, Outline, p. 68 f.; *Keith*, Buddhist Philosophy, p. 22. When, in the Dīpavaṃsa V, 35-37, we are told that, at the “great Council” of Vesālī, the Mahāsaṅgītika Bhikkhus rejected certain passages of the Suttas and the Vinaya, especially the Parivāra, Abhidhamma, Paṭisambhidā, Niddesa texts and portions of the Jātakas, and wrote down other texts in their place, it is noteworthy that it is precisely these texts which we, too, are inclined to suspect of being later additions to the Canon.