A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.340
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t2.340
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The Apadāna is certainly one of the very latest works of the Khuddakanikāya and of the canon generally, if we are really justified in including it in the canon. At all events, judged by its general character, it is much more closely allied to the Sanskrit Avadānas than to the remaining works of the Pāli Canon.¹ We must leave it to future research to find out, by means of a detailed comparison between the Apadānas and the Buddhist Sanskrit texts,² what place they occupy in the chronology of the history of Buddhist literature.