{"product_id":"5110","title":"The Udana \u0026 The Itivuttaka (Pariyatti Edition)","description":" \u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClick Google Preview button to look inside the book.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\u003cscript type=\"text\/javascript\"\u003eGBS_setLanguage('en');GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781681721125');\u003c\/script\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTwo short classics of the Pali Canon in one volume.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Udana\u003c\/strong\u003e, or  Inspired Utterances of the Buddha,  belongs to the Sutta Pi aka of the Pali Canon. It is the third book of the Minor Collection (Khuddaka Nikaya), found between the Dhammapada and the Itivuttaka. The Minor (or Lesser) Collection, although it is actually quite bulky, is given this name because it is an assortment of miscellaneous texts most of which were not included in what are regarded as the four main collections (nikaya).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Udana consists of eighty discourses, mostly short, divided into eight sections or chapters (vagga). The title  \u003cem\u003eUdana\u003c\/em\u003e  refers to the pronouncement, usually in verse, made at the end of each discourse and prefaced by the words:  Then, on realizing its significance, the Lord uttered on that occasion this inspired utterance . Thus \u003cem\u003eudana\u003c\/em\u003e means an inspired or solemn utterance spontaneously evoked, literally  breathed forth  (udanesi), by the understanding or realization (viditva) of the significance of the situation or event that occasioned it. Here it is the Buddha who pronounces these utterances although others are sometimes so inspired (e.g., in 2.10 and 3.7). \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003chr\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Itivuttaka\u003c\/strong\u003e is a collection of 112 short discourses of the Buddha in both prose and verse. The text belongs to the Pali Canon of the Therav da school, being placed between the Ud na and the Sutta Nip ta. It was previously translated by F.L. Woodward and published together with his translation of the Ud na in Minor Anthologies of the Pali Canon, Vol. II (London, 1935).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAccording to the commentarial tradition, the suttas or discourses of the Itivuttaka were collected by the woman lay-disciple Khujjuttar  from sermons given by the Buddha while he was staying at Kosamb . Khujjuttar  was a servant of S m vat , the consort of King Udena. She had become a stream-enterer after meeting the Buddha and subsequently converted the women of the palace headed by Samavat� to the teaching. She used to go regularly to listen to the Buddha and then later repeated what she had heard to the other women. The collection of these sayings became the Itivuttaka. It is said that the emphatic statements at the beginning and end of each of the suttas, reproduced here only in the first and last, were made by Khujjuttar  to stress that they were the Buddha s words and not her own.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhether or not this story is true, the Itivuttaka is the only book in the Pali Canon that introduces and concludes its suttas in this fashion, and it is from the opening statement that the title is derived:  This was said (vutta�) by the Lord   so (iti) I heard  hence Itivuttaka,  The So-was-said  or  Sayings. \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Ireland, John D.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101589278814,"sku":"AMZNKDP778720","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/778720_f7aa1265-0ad0-4330-aace-1ef0d424abde.jpg?v=1760548604","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/5110","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}