This article offers further support for Lance Cousins’ thesis that the Pāli canon, written down in the first century BCE in Sri Lanka, was based largely on a Theriya manuscript tradition from South India. Attention is also given to some of Cousins’ related arguments, in particular, that this textual transmission occurred within a Vibhajjavādin framework; that it occurred in a form of ‘proto-Pāli’ close to the Standard Epigraphical Prakrit of the first century BCE; and that that distinct Sinhalese nikāyas emerged perhaps as late as the third century CE.
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Introduction 245 1. The formation of a written Tipiṭaka 246 2. A Vibhajjavādin canon? 249 3. The demise of the Vibhajjavādins 252 Conclusion: From Anurādhapura to Nāgārjunakoṇḍa and beyond 255 Appendix 257 Manorathapūraṇī, Ekakanipāta-aṭṭhakathā X (Ee I.91.22–93.25) 257 Abbreviations 258 Bibliography 258
