Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c16.136

v1.c16.136

Catubhāṇavāra.—A compilation of twenty-seven extracts from the five Nikāyas, chiefly from the Khuddaka Pāṭha. It also includes several suttas and all the well-known Parittas (q.v.). The date of compilation and the author are not known. There is a commentary to the book called the Sārattha-Samuccaya, written by a pupil of Ānanda Vanaratana Thera, and a Sinhalese paraphrase of the eighteenth century, written by Saraṇaṅkara Saṅgharāja.¹ ¹ See Introd. to Sārattha-Samuccaya (H.B.S.); also Gv. 65, 75.