LANMAN. — PALI BOOK-TITLES. C95 



Khuddaka-nikaya have a comm. bearing this title, to wit, nos. 7-8 and 

 10-13. Curiously, the title Paramattha-dlpanl is not even men- 

 tioned by the Gnvrj. (see Bode, p. 67), except as title of a Tlka on 

 Bu.crn. (see below) ; but it is vouched for as a true title of the comm. 

 on Theri-gatha, on Peta-vatthu, and on Vimana-vatthu (nos. 13, 11, 

 10 : that is, the three published parts) by a line found in the colophon 

 of each of them, to wit : 



pakasana Paramattha-dlpanl nama namato. 

 Cp. the Sdhs., p. 63, verses 32 and 27. The comm. on Udana is spoken 

 of by Steinthal, p. vii. of his ed. of the text, as " entitled the Paramattha- 

 dlpanl ; " and the comm. on Thera-gatha is " called Paramattha-dlpanl," 

 according to Oldenberg, p. xii. of his ed. of the text. Only in the case 

 of the comm. on Iti-vuttaka was I unable to cite authority for entitling 

 it Paramattha-dlpanl. Accordingly I wrote to Professor A. Cabaton of 

 the Bibliotheque Nationale to inquire, and he very kindly informed me 

 that in the colophon of the ms. in that library the comm. is indeed 

 called "Paramattha-dlpanl, comm. on Iti-vuttaka." 



Paramattha-dlpanl is a title applied, by the Sdhs. at least, to five 

 other commentaries also, namely those on the last five texts of 

 the Abhidhamma, nos. 23-27 : for at p. 60, the supercommentary 

 called " The Third Illustrator of the Supreme Meaning " (p. 696, note 

 43, below) is described as "a statement of the meaning of the Five- 

 Treatise-commentary styled The Elucidator of the Supreme Meaning" 

 (Panca-ppakaran-atthakathaya Paramattha-dlpaniya attha-vannana). 

 I suppose this Paramattha-dlpanl must be Buddhaghosa's. And finally 

 Dhammapala's supercommentary on the comm. to the Buddha-varjsa is 

 styled Paramattha-dlpanl. 41 



The " Parts " of the Paramattha-dipani. — As to the three " Parts " 

 published by the PTS., namely, no. 13, in 1893, on Theri-gatha ; no. 11, 

 in 1894, on Peta-vatthu ; and no. 10, in 1901, on Vimana-vatthu. — No. 

 13 is lettered on the back (from the bottom upwards) " Paramattha 

 Dipani." No. 11 is lettered on the back (from the bottom upwards) 

 " Dhammapala's Paramattha-Dipani. Part III." No. 10 is lettered 

 on the back (from the top downwards) " Paramattha-Dipani. Part 

 IV." No further indication of the contents of any of these volumes is 

 given on the back ; 42 but the title-page of each does name the text to 



41 Gnvn., p. 60: cp. Bode's Index, pp. 67, 70. 



42 These negligences are doubtless petty ones. It is only a petty annoy- 

 ance to take the book from the shelf upsidedown, and only a petty annoyance 

 to have to take down two or three volumes before you get the right one ; but 

 such annoyances are gratuitous and have a cumulative tendency to impede 

 rapid work. 



