Abstract:
The Saddabindu, the smallest Compendium of the Kaccāyana school of Pali
grammar was written in 1777 BCE and the author of this compendium was
Dhammarājaguru. It is not clear whether the author is a bhikkhu or a lay man
as seen in the text. According to the Saddabindu Purāṇa-ṭīkā, he is a bhikkhu.
The Saddabindu consists of twenty one verses in short forms. There are two
commentaries on the Saddabindu, namely Līnatthasūdanī Saddabindu Purāṇa-
ṭīkā and Saddabindu Abhinava-ṭīkā. The first one belongs to Burma and the
second to Thailand.
According to the Ven. Polvatte Buddhadatta, the second one has been published
in Burma. But unfortunately Saddabindu Purāṇa-ṭīkā has not been published yet
and is available only in very ancient Ola-leaf Manuscripts written in Sinhalese
scripts. Saddabindu Purāṇa-ṭīkā has not yet been recognized by any scholar.
The ṭīkā used by Ven. Horaṇa Kahaṭapiṭiye Rāhula is in the form of an Ola-leaf
manuscript. There are forty three copies of the text in the K. D. Somadasa’s
work on Lankāve Puskoḷapot Nāmāvaliya. For this study, we were able to
find seven Ola-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lankan temples and libraries. In the
colophon of the text, it has been said that it was compiled by Ven. ¥āṇavilāsa
Mahā thera in Ghaṭīkārāmaya of Arimaddana town in Burma. There are six
bhaṇavaras which is considered as the text. The objective of this paper is to
give a brief introduction about it.
