358 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIX, 
work the Neiti-Pakarana, a treatment of the scientific method 
of exegetical exposition of Buddha’s doctrine in its two-fold 
aspect—the linguistic and the connotative-denotative, the 
formal and the material. The term Pitaka seems to have been 
erived from the common parlance in which it meant a basket 
for sg oi earth (mattika-bhajana), ef. kuldalapitakam, spade 
and bas ts alternative form Peiaka corresponds to ° 
petaka, petiki or Bengali peda, meaning some kind of a box or 
chest (manjusa) In the Buddhist technical sense, too,.the 
term Pitaka or Petaka is Mees | metaphorically to mean pariy- 
atti bhajana or pariyatti-manjusa, with this difference, however, 
that here it stands for both the container and the contained.” 
The suggested metaphors are quite appropriate from the 
Buddhist theological point of view, according to which Buddhist 
doctrines or traditions as rehearsed, collected and fixed at the 
first Council, were transmitted (@bhata) or orally handed down 
(mukhapathavasena) from teacher to teacher *, just in the same 
way that dug up earth is carried in baskets from head to head 
till it is deposited and protected in the shape of a mound. It 
ands to reason to say that Pitaka as a technical term is used 
exclusively by the Buddhists, but one must repudiate the 
ee handed down i in different schools with the prevailing beliet 
o these were’, ‘ so these were’ (anussavena iliha-itiha-param- 
paraya jens sampadiya a). 
NEKAYIKA.—This occurs in the votive label 
AeiharaEMitees Pamcanekayikasa dainam*, as an epithet of 
the donor Buddharaksita who is apparently a Buddhist 
householder. It also occurs as an epithet of the monk- 
donor Devagiri in the Sanchi Buddhist Stiipa I inscription, 
Liiders No. 299. 
Pamcanekayika or Pancanaikayika is derived from Pav- 
canikayo, and means one who is conversant with. ie. knows 
by heart, the Five Nikayas Pe | India, p. 167). Pan- 


a Aiasatiniy p. 2 p. 20. Cf. Kodal-peurga or peurga- eae of the Chitta- 
2 Atthasalini, p. 20. 
3 Ibid, p. 32: Kenabhatan ti ? Acariya: paramparaya 
+ Majjhima a Nikaya, YI. Canki-Sutta: manta dim: Mania yeva 
mancapadam, are’ ti attho. Itiha-ittha-parampardydti evam kira, evam 
kirdti paramparabhavent agatanti. Pitaka-sampadaydti ska 
agatinti (P fida Sandaka ~— 
(Majjhima, p. 5 set pape = these expressions the t 
tional method of a Vedic teacher ae yi 
tipa eo Bharhut p. 142, RI. 32. Plate LVI. Hultzsch, No. I44. 
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