[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.s5.134 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.134 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.134 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.134) ³ This section of the Aṭṭhakathā, which was also a source of the Mahāvaṃsa, is quoted in the commentary on the latter, as Sīhalaṭṭhakathā-Mahāvaṃsa, \*i.e.\*, "the great History (of the Island of Ceylon) belonging to the Singhalese Commentary," and in the poem of the Mahāvaṃsa itself, as "the (Mahāvaṃsa) composed by the ancients." According to \*Geiger\*, Dīp. und Mah., p. 71, it was an independent chronicle; according to \*Oldenberg\* (Dīpavaṃsa, Introd., p. 4) with whom I agree, it was an historical introduction to a theological commentary. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.133](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.133) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.135) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.134) · Pramāṇa