A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s4.4

v2.c19.s4.4

¹ The Dhamma-Saṅgaṇi begins with a Mātikā of this nature, and *Mrs. Rhys Davids* (Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics, 2nd Ed., pp. ix, cv-cxiii) believes that this one should be regarded as the sole source of the Abhidhammapiṭaka. The Puggala-paññatti and the Dhātukathā, however, also begin with Mātikās. The passages in which *Mātikā* is mentioned (*e.g.*, dhammadharo vinayadharo mātikādharo paṇḍito, Cullavagga I, 11, 1; XII, 1, 9), indicate that the word does not mean any one definite text, but, as in the case of dhamma and vinaya, a class of texts.