In the Pāli literature of earlier and medieval times the authors’ names are mostly not mentioned. Sometimes they are added in subheadings, or in the colophon of a text, or in rare cases in the introductory portions. Subheadings are frequently added by scribes or editors in the course of the transmission, and do not necessarily belong to a text originally. Colophons too might have been added later, or have been extended, sometimes even in several steps. Thus neither subheadings nor colophons are necessarily reliable witnesses for authorship. Saṅgharakkhita mahāsāmi, head of the Saṅgha in Sri Lanka from 1232–36 up to some time before 1266 CE, is credited with the authorship of several texts in certain Pāli literary histories. In others, however, some of these texts are attributed to Vācissara. To sort out the affiliation of the various texts to one of these two authors, I here, as a first step, deal with the works proved to stem from the same author’s pen, namely Saṅgharakkhita’s, by intertextual links, because these are not prone to later changes and are, therefore, highly reliable witnesses. It can be proved that Saṅgharakkhita wrote the Khuddasikkhā-abhinavaṭīkā, the Moggallānapañjikā-ṭīkā, the Sambandhacintā, the Subodhālaṅkāra, the Subodhālaṅkāraporāṇaṭīkā, the Vuttodaya, and the Yogavinicchaya.
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Introduction 23 Intertextual links 26 The Moggallānapañcikā-ṭīkā 27 Intertextual link to the Subodhālaṅkāra-porāṇaṭīkā named Mahāsāmi 31 Intertextual link to the Khuddasikkhā-abhinavaṭīkā named Sumaṅgalappasādanī 34 Intertextual link to the Sambandhacintā 40 The Khuddasikkhā-abhinavaṭīkā named Sumaṅgalappasādinī 43 Intertextual link to the Subodhālaṅkāra 43 Intertextual link to the Yogavinicchaya 44 The Subodhālaṅkāra-porāṇaṭīkā 46 Conclusions 48
