[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.s5.165 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.165 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.165 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.165) Buddhadatta is said to have been a contemporary of Buddhaghosa. It is claimed that he, too, was born in India and lived at various times both in Ceylon and at Kāñcīpura and other places in South India. It is, however, questionable whether the legends about the meeting of Buddhadatta and Buddhaghosa were not merely invented with a view to enhancing the reputation of a much later writer. This later Buddhadatta is the author of a commentary on the Buddhavamsa and of comprehensive works on the Abhidhamma and Vinaya: the Abhidhammāvatāra, Rūpārūpavibhāga and the Vinaya-Vinicchaya.¹ - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.164](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.164) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.166) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) ## Cites (3) - [Abhidhammāvatāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.abhidhamma.abhidhammavatara) — Buddhadatta, Pāli - [Vinayavinicchaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vinaya.vinayavinicchaya) — Buddhadatta, Pāli - [Buddhavaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.buddhavamsa) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.165) · Pramāṇa