A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.178
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.178
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² *Burlingame* (JAOS 38, 1918, pp. 267 f.) declares this tradition to be unreliable, as it has been shown that Pāli sources were used for the commentary. But it is difficult to understand how and why so definite a statement could have been made without any historical background. It is quite feasible, in fact perfectly natural that, when translating into Pāli, the compilers should have accepted both canonical and noncanonical Pāli texts in their original Pāli form, without going to the trouble of translating the texts from the Singhalese.