Patna Dhamma Verses (Patna Dhammapada)

Preface - 7
Notes on the Patna Dharmapada, which discussed the text and
described features of the language. 8
In 1986, Margaret Cone presented her thesis at Cambridge, which
contained another transcription of the text. The unpublished thesis
was entitled THE PATNA DHAMMAPADA, transcribed and
translated with a commentary. In it she translated the text, recorded
the variant readings found in Shukla and Roth, and gave a
philological commentary, and discussed the parallels.
In 1989 Dr. Cone published an edition of the text based on her thesis,
entitled Patna Dhammapada 1, 9 with the alternative readings by
Shukla and Roth, but without her translation and commentary. 10
Kōgen Mizuno prepared another edition of the text in 1990,
published under the title A Study of the Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
Dharmapada II. 11 However, this has no independent value, as Mizuno
had not seen the photographs and it is simply based on Shukla and
Roth.
8
Both the Notes and the Text form a Supplement to his main paper which
was on The Language of the Āyra-Mahāsāṁghika-Lokuttaravādins, pp 78-
93; Notes, pp 93-97; Text, pp 97-135.
9
There was no II. JPTS XIII, pp 101-218.
10
All three editions show a great variation in the readings adopted, but the
most thoroughly researched seems to be Cone’s text, which I rely upon for
this translation.
11
Buddhist Studies (Bukkyō Kenkyū, XIX, 1990).