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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.335

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c31.335

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### [v2.c31.335](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c31.335)

Majjhimabhāṇakā.—The "reciters" of the Majjhima Nikāya (q.v.), those who learned it and handed it down, probably the "school" of Sāriputta. This "school" included the Cariyāpiṭaka, Apadāna and Buddhavamsa in the Khuddaka Nikāya, and ascribed the whole Nikāya to the Sutta Piṭaka.¹

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