Buddhadatta untranslated

Buddhadatta 01. Buddhadatta Thera. He lived in Uragapura in South India and wrote his works in the monastery of Bhūtamaṅgalagāma in the Coḷa country, his patron being Accutavikkama.

He studied, however, at the Mahā Vihāra in Anurādhapura. Tradition says that he met Buddhaghosa (e.g., Sās-d., p.55).

Buddhadatta’s works include the Vinayavinicchaya, the Uttaravinicchaya, the Abhidhammāvatāra and the Rūpārūpavibhāga. The Madhuratthavilāsinī and the Jinālaṅkāra are also sometimes ascribed to him. Svd.1195,1199; Gv.59,66,69. For details see PLC.105 ff.

Buddhadatta 02. Head of a dynasty of twenty-five kings who reigned in Rājagaha. His ancestors reigned in Mithilā. Dpv.iii.30; the Mhv­ṭ. (P.129) calls him Samuddadatta.