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The Mahāvastu (Sanskrit for "Great Event" or "Great Story") is a text of the Lokottaravāda school of Early Buddhism. It describes itself as being a historical preface to the Buddhist monastic codes (''vinaya''). Over half of the text is composed of Jātaka and Avadāna tales, accounts of the earlier lives of the Buddha and other bodhisattvas.〔〔 The Mahāvastu contains prose and verse written in mixed Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit.〔Jones (1949), pp. x–xi.〕〔Law (1930), "Introduction."〕 It is believed to have been composed between the 2nd century BCE and 4th century CE.〔("Mahāvastu" (2008). )〕〔Jones (1949), p. xi, writes: ""... the ''Mahāvastu'' is not the composition of a single author written in a well-defined period of time. Rather, it is a compilation which may have been begun in the second century B.C., but which was not completed until the third or fourth century A.D."〕 ==Pali Canon parallels== The Mahāvastu's Jataka tales are similar to those of the Pali Canon although significant differences exist in terms of the tales' details. Other parts of the Mahāvastu have more direct parallels in the Pali Canon including from the Digha Nikaya (DN 19, ''Mahāgovinda Sutta''), the Majjhima Nikaya (MN 26, ''Ariyapariyesana Sutta''; and, MN 36, ''Mahasaccaka Sutta''), the Khuddakapātha, the Dhammapada (ch. 8, ''Sahassa Vagga''; and, ch. 25, ''Bhikkhu Vagga''), the Sutta Nipata (Sn 1.3, ''Khaggavisāa Sutta''; Sn 3.1, ''Pabbajjā Sutta''; and, Sn 3.2, ''Padhāna Sutta''), the Vimanavatthu and the .〔Law (1930), p. iv.〕〔Regarding the Dhammapada parallels, see Ānandajoti (2007), "Introduction," where Ānandajoti writes: :Of the incomplete parallels, two chapters from yet another Dharmapada have been preserved in the Mahāvastu, one of the earliest of the Sanskritised Prakrit texts; one of the chapters is named as the Sahasravarga, and appears to be the whole of the chapter; the other is a selection that comes from an unnamed Bhikuvarga. From ("Ancient Buddhist Texts" ). See also; ch. 8, ("Sahassavagga" ), and ch. 25, ("Bhikkhuvagga" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mahāvastu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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