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Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesAn Abhidhamma treatise by Buddhadatta of Uragapura. The book was written in India in the Cola country. It is an introduction to the study of the Abhidhamma, and there is much similarity between it and the Visuddhi Magga, though Buddhadattas diction is less involved and ambiguous than that of Buddhaghosa; his vocabulary is extraordinarily rich and his style more graphic.
The work is mostly in verse with, here and there, a prose commentary supplied by the author himself (Gv.69; see P.L.C. 107-8 for details).
Two tikas on it exist, one by Vacissara Mahasami of the Mahavihara and the other by Sumangala, pupil of Sariputta. Sas.34.
Gv. (p.69) says that Buddhadatta wrote it at the request of his pupil Sumati.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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