Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c8.39

c8.39

Some late features.—Moreover ‘the sutta as it is cannot be considered quite free from “interpolation”. Like the preceding sutta it contains the lengthy threefold “Moralities”, and these, it has been suggested by Rhys Davids, formed once an independent text. Our present sutta perhaps contained originally a reference to the ‘Cūḷasīla’ alone which may have been later replaced by its amplified version.