Thomas William Rhys Davids

“ This latter work he afterwards rewrote in Ceylon, as the present text (now published by the Pāli Text Society) shows. One volume of the Sumangala Vilāsinī (a portion of the commentaries mentioned above) has been edited, and extracts from his comment on the Buddhist canon law. This last work has been discovered in a nearly contemporaneous Chinese translation (an edition in Pāli is based on a comparison with that translation) . The works here mentioned form, however, only a small portion of what Buddhaghosa wrote. His industry must have been prodigious. ”

“ See Mahāvamsa, ch. xxxvii. (ed. Turnour, Colombo, 1837) ; “Gandhavaramsa,” p. 59, in Journal of the Pāli Text Society (1886) ; Buddhaghosuppatti (text and translation, ed. by J. Gray, London, 1893) ; Sumangala Vilāsinī, edited by T. W. Rhys Davids and J. E. Carpenter, vol. i. ”