[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s3.t1.22 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.22 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.22 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.22) It is evident that it was a favourite practice to utilise this famous and popular Sutta for inserting especially important texts into it, with a view to enhance their prestige by this means; thus, for instance, also the Dhammādāsa, or "mirror of religion," the solemn confession of faith in the Buddha, the doctrine and the community, was inserted.¹ The final redaction of the Mahā-Parinibbāna-Sutta can nevertheless only be of comparatively late date; for one passage speaks of the transmission and authority of the Suttas and of the Vinaya texts;² and in the concluding section of the Sutta, mention is even made of Buddha relics³ and the erection of Stūpas, \*i.e.\*, the same Buddha who, in the beautiful dialogue with Ānanda, still stood before us as a simple man and teacher, already appears here as the object of a cult, which is not attested by monuments until the time of Aśoka. - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.21) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.23) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.22) · Pramāṇa