A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.169

v2.c19.s5.169

¹ According to the Gandhavamsa (JPTS 1886, pp. 61, 72), Kassapa is the author of the work, and Upatissa the author of an Aṭṭhakathā on it. Now both Kassapa and Upatissa are names of Theras and writers of various periods. *Cf.* Geiger, l.c., p. 25, para. 29. Visuddhi-Magga, p. 434, and Attha-Sālinī, p. 415, as well as Anāgatavaṃsa, v. 96, say of the future Metteyya, that the name of his mother is Brahmavatī and that of his father Subrahmā. It is not evident to me, however, that Buddhaghosa quotes from the Anāgatavaṃsa, as is assumed by Mr. *Rhys Davids* (Visuddhi-Magga Ed., pp. 761, 764). Hence we are not in a position to prove that the Anāgatavaṃsa is earlier than Buddhaghosa. As a matter of fact, there is also a recension of the Anāgatavaṃsa, which is written in the mixed prose and verse style, and yet another Anāgatavaṃsa which diverges from our work, and tells the story of the ten future Buddhas. (Minayeff, JPTS 1886, pp. 33 ff., 39 f.).