Catubhāṇavāra untranslated

Catubhāṇavāra. A compilation of twenty-seven extracts from the five Nikāyas, chiefly from the Khuddakapātha. It also includes several Suttas and all the well-known Parittas (q.v.). The date of compilation and the author are not known. There is a commentary to the book called the Sāraṭṭhasamuccaya, written by a pupil of Ānanda Vanaratana Thera, and a Sinhalese paraphrase of the eighteenth century, written by Saraṇaṅkara Saṅgharāja. See Introduction to Sāraṭṭhasamuccaya (H.B.S.); also Gv.65, 75.