Indian Antiquary Vol 13

SR No.: 032505
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 492
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(MAY, 1884.
to enter Nirvana he handed it over to his disciple Hun-tu (Gu-do), saying: "Why do we see no Mu-chien-lien-tez' Ti-sü-mu (Moku-ken-ren-shimore dote added after the 7th (read 8th) year of Tai-shu-moku, i.e., Maudgalyayanfputra Tishya, Yuri-mins (Yei-mei) period P" Hub-tu (Gu-do) anor Moggaliputta Tissa (see Dépavansa). When swered: "Before that (year) there were holy men Maudgalyayaniputra Tishya was going to enter who entered on the path, and who added these Nirudnao he handed it over to his disciple Chan. dots with their own hands; but I, who am detho-pho-sho (Sen-JA-batsu-sia, i.e., Chandavaggi) prived of the path, being an ignorant person, (see Dépavarsa).
might only take hold of and worship.it (the MS. "Thus these teachers handed it over succes- of the Vinaya-pitaka), and should never dare to sively till the present teacher of the Law of the add a dot." Tripitaka. This teacher of the Law of the Tri. "Poh-heiu (Haku-kiu) (afterwards) counted pitaka brought (the MS. of) the Vinaya-pitaka to the number following these old dots down to Kwan-cheu, or the province Kwang (i.6., Canton). the 9th year of the Ta-thun (Dai-d) period, A.D. When he was embarking homewards from there, 643, the cycle of which was Kroei-hdi (Ki-gai), he handed (the MS. of) the Vinaya-pitaka over to
nnder the Liản (Rio) dynasty, AD. 502-556, and is disciple. San. kid-pho.tho.lo (San-ga-batau.de.| obtained the total number of 1028 years, 13 ra, i.e., Sanghabhadra).
". Following this number counted by Poh-hsiu “'In the 6th (read 7th] year of the Yuri-min (Haku-kiu), Chhån-fan counted it from the 9th (Yei-moi) period, A.D. 489, Sanghabhadra, together year of the (Ta-thun (Ddi-dd) period, A.D. 543, with the Sramana San-i (Sô-i, a Chinese priest), down to the present year, the 17th year of the translated this Sudarbana-vibhdshd(-vinaya), in Khdi-hodi (Kdi-low) period, A.D. 597, the cycle the chu-lin-sz' (chika-rin-zi, lit. "Bamboo-grove of which was Tin-es' (Tei-shi), and obtained the monastery." i.e., Veņuvana-vihára), in the province total number of 1082 years.16 Kwang (i.e., Canton). He stayed there, keeping "It so (only a little more than a thousand the An-chü (An-go, lit. "easy-living")." In the years have just elapsed since the Tathagata's middle (i..., the 15th day) of the 7th month of the Nirvana. We are therefore) not yet very remote 7th (read 8th]" year of the Yun-min (Yoi-mei) from the time of the Sage (lit. still near to the period, A.D. 490, the cycle of which was Kan-wu Sage), 80 that we should heartily be glad and (Ko-go), when he had received the Ter'tsu' (Zi-shi, rejoiced. May we altogether diligently and sinor Pravdrana), he worshipped (the MS. of) the cerely promulgate the Law left (by the Sage)!" Vinaya-pitaka with flowers and incense, according It would follow from these statements, as transto the law or rules of his preceding teachers, and lated by my friend, Mr. Bunyiu Nanjio, that there added one dot (to the MS.). In that year, A.D. 490, was a MS. of the Vinaya-pitaka in existence at there were 975 dots in all, one dot representing
the time of Sanghabhadra, say A.D. 490, which one year.
contained 975 dots, and that each of these dots "In the first year of the Ta-thus (Dai-do) was believed to mark one year. This would give period, A.D. 535, under the Lian (Rió) dynasty the year 485 as the year in which the MS. was A.D. 502-556, Chão Poh hsiu (Chio Haku-kiu, a written by UpAli, immediately after the death of Chinese) met Hun-tu (Gu-do), & teacher of the Buddha. The dots were counted by Chao Poh Vinaya who was practising painfully at the Lu. heiu in A.D. 185, by Chhan-fan in A.D. 597, not very shân (Ro-san, or the Lu-mountain, in China). long, therefore, before A.D. 664, when the story From him he obtained this record of the dots was written down. having been added by holy men successively after The objections to this statement, as written down Buddha's Nirvana. The date in it (as marked by in A.D. 664, are palpable. First of all, we do not the dota) ended in the 7th [read 8th] year of the know that Upali actually wrote a MS., and we Yuri- min (Yei-mei) period, A.D. 490, under the Tshiread in the Mahavamsa that the Pitakattaya and (Sei) dynasty. Then Poh-hsiu (Haku-kiu) asked the Atthakathd were not written down before the
3001 B.C.
283 B.C. 10 The name of this teacher is not given, but he was evidently the teacher of Sanghabhadra, as soon below.
11 Thin name is still used by the priests of the Shin. shiu, and also some other sects, in Japan, for the Hummer term in the theological colleges. This term corresponds to the rainy season in India, when Buddha and his disciples are said to have lived or stayed together in one place, and discussed the law.
13 The 6th and 7th year (i. e., A.D. 488 and 489) must be changed into the 7th and 8th year (i.6. A.D. 189 and 400), not only because the cycle of the latter your, given in the text, corresponds to the 8th
year dr A. D. 490, instead of the 7th year or A. D. 489, As the text reads, but also because the distance between two later datos, given in the text below, is exactly in scoordance with this emendation.
1 1. e., 975 (A.D. 490) +58 (A.D. 548) = 1028.
** Ze pan-ran was the compiler of. Catalogue of the Buddhist books in A.D. 597 (see No. 14 in appendix ü. of my Catalogue).
15 This word present' seems to have been takon from ChhA-fan's writing, because Dlo-shen was only about four years old in A.D. 197, and his catalogue w completed not earlier than A.D. 664.
10 1. e., 1028 (A.D. 549) + 54 (A.D. 507) = 1082."