Mahākhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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The Texts:
The text of the Mahākhandhakaṁ as presented here has been established through a
comparison of the four standard editions:
BJT: Sri Lankan Edition from Mahāvaggapāḷi, pp. 2-90. Buddha Jayanti Tripitika
Series, volume III. 1957, reprinted Colombo, 2005 with corrections.
PTS: European edition, from Vinaya Piṭakaṁ, Vol I, The Mahāvagga, edited by
Hermann Oldenburg, Pali Text Society, 1879, reprinted London, 1969.
Thai: Thai edition, as found on Budsir for Windows CD-ROM (version 2.0,
Bangkok, 1996).
ChS: Burmese edition, as found on the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana CD-ROM (version 3,
Igatpuri, no date, but = 1999).
Other Texts:
Comm: Mahāvagga-Aṭṭhakathā, as found on the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana CD-ROM
(version 3, Igatpuri, no date, but = 1999).
Jā Nid: Jātakanidāna, as found on the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana CD-ROM (version 3,
Igatpuri, no date, but = 1999).
Mvu: Mahavastu, Vol III, edited by E. Senart, Paris 1897.
Lal: Lalitavistara, edited by Lefman, Halle, 1902; also P.L. Vaidya, Darbhanga,
1958
Translations Consulted:
BD: The Book of the Discipline, Vol I, I.B. Horner, London, 1938.
VT: Vinaya Texts, Part I, T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg, Oxford
1885, reprinted Delhi 1990
SGB: The Story of Gotama Buddha, N.A. Jayawickrama, PTS Oxford, 1990.
MT: The Mahavastu, J. J. Jones, London, 3 volumes 1949-1956.
LV: Lalitavistara, Bijoya Goswami, Kolkata, 2001.
Dictionaries:
PED: Pāḷi-English Dictionary, T.W. Rhys Davids and William Stede, 1921-25,
online edition: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/