Notes on the Ancient Geography of Burma

Rangoon: Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, 1906. — 27 p.Дюруазель К. Заметки по географии древней Бирмы (на англ. яз.)The Punnovada-sutta of the Samyutta-nikaya is found, almost word for word, in the Sanskrit version of the celebrated Legend of Purna, as translated by Burnouf from the Divyavadana. The Pali Sutta does not give us any further information concerning this interlocutor of the Buddha; but the commentaries or Atthakatha give, as a rule, the history of the persons mentioned in the texts. Consequently, while looking over the voluminous commentary on the Sannyutta, I have found therein the Legend of Punna (Sanskrit Purna) such as it is known to the Southern School of Buddhism, or, at least, that part of the legend which the commentators have thought fit to insert in their work: for if the sutta itself seems to be but an extract (unless one prefers to see in it the nucleus round which the legend later on developed itself), the commentary gives to the careful reader the impression that it (the commentary) is but an abridgment from which are omitted secondary incidents known to the Sanskrit version.