A Comparative Edition of the Dhammapada

A Study of the Dhammapada Collection - 36
24. Taṇhāvagga
Pāḷi Patna Gāndhārī Udānavarga
24.1 Taṇhā 9.1 Tahna 3.3 Tasiṇa (d)* 3.4 Tṛṣṇā (abd)
24.2 Taṇhā 9.2 Tahna 3.9 Tṛṣṇā
24.3 Taṇhā 9.3 Tahna 3.10 Tṛṣṇā
24.4 Taṇhā 9.4 Tahna (ab) 7.17 Apramadu 3.11 Tṛṣṇā
24.5 Taṇhā 9.20 Tahna 3.16 Tṛṣṇā
24.6 Taṇhā 13.22 Śaraṇa
24.7 Taṇhā
24.8 Taṇhā 9.12 Tahna 3.5 Tṛṣṇā
24.9 Taṇhā 9.13 Tahna 3.6 Tṛṣṇā
24.10 Taṇhā 9.13 Tahna (ab) 3.6 Tṛṣṇā (ab)
24.11 Taṇhā 9.15 Tahna 3.2 Tasiṇa (d)* 27.29 Paśya
24.12 Taṇhā 9.7 Tahna 11.8 Suha 2.5 Kāma (abd)
24.13 Taṇhā 9.8 Tahna 11.9 Suha 2.6 Kāma
24.14 Taṇhā 11.10 Suha
24.15 Taṇhā 9.14 Tahna 10.? Jara 29.57 Yuga
24.16 Taṇhā 3.1 Tṛṣṇā
24.17 Taṇhā 3.2 Tṛṣṇā
24.18 Taṇhā
24.19 Taṇhā 9.11 Tahna
24.20 Taṇhā 21.1 Tathāgata
24.21 Taṇhā 26.31 Nirvāṇa (abd)
24.22 Taṇhā 2.16 Kāma
24.23 Taṇhā 9.16 Tahna 16.16 Prakirṇaka
24.24 Taṇhā 9.17 Tahna 16.17 Prakirṇaka
24.25 Taṇhā 9.18 Tahna 16.18 Prakirṇaka
24.26 Taṇhā 9.18 Tahna (acd) 16.21 Prakirṇaka
(acd)
26 18 7 21
Although the Taṇhā category is well-established and occurs in all the parallels
(though the Gāndhārī edition is fragmented at this point), again what it contains is
not.
There are four verses in the Pāḷi that are not paralleled in the other editions, and they
are not found elsewhere in the Pāḷi Canon either.
The sequences 2 - 4 and 23 - 26 also occur in Patna and Udānavarga, 21 with the
exception of the last verse.
21
Udānavarga has 3 other parallels with the substitution of mānadoṣā, lobhadoṣā, and
tṛṣṇādoṣā in the 2nd line.