{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20122.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20122.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20122.htm","text":"As the division into Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras or Portions for Recitation is of some value in the history of the way in which the books were handed down, and is now overshadowed by the more practical division for modern purposes adopted in this translation into chapters and sections, the following table may be of use:--\n| | | MAH\u00c2VAGGA. | | | \n| Present division. | | Pali title. | Page in text. | Extent in text. | \n| KHANDHAKA | I. | | | | \n| Chapter | 6. | Pathama-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 14 | 14 | \n| | 14. | Dutiyaka-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 24 | 10 | \n| | 21. | Uruvela-p\u00e2tih\u00e2riyam tatiyaka-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram nitthitam | 35 | 11 | \n| | 24. | Katutthaka-bh. nitthitam | 44 | 9 | \n| | 30. | Upaggh\u00e2ya-vatta-bh. nitthitam pa\u00f1kamam | 58 | 14 | \n| | 33. | Khattham bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 61 | 3 | \n| | 38. | Sattamam bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 71 | 10 | \n| | 53. | Abhay\u00fbvara-bh. nitthitam | 81 | 10 | \n| | 79. | | 98 | ? 17 | \n| KHANDHAKA | II. | | | | \n| Chapter | 16. | A\u00f1\u00f1a-titthiya-bh. nitthitam | 115 | 16 | \n| | 27. | Kodan\u00e2-vatthu-bh. nitthitam | 128 | 13 | \n| | 36. | Uposatha-khandhake tatiyam bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 136 | 8 | \n| KHANDHAKA | III. | | | | \n| Chapter | 8. | Vass\u00e2v\u00e2sa-bh. nitthitam | 148 | 11 | \n| | 14. | | 155 | 7 | \n| KHANDHAKA | IV. | | | | \n| Chapter | 6. | Pathama-bh. nitthitam | 164 | 9 | \n| | 18. | | 178 | 14 | \n| KHANDHAKA | V | has no Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras, and ends in the text on page | 198 | 20 | \n| p. 416 | | | | | \n| KHANDHAKA | VI. | | | | \n| Chapter | 15. | Bhesagga-anu\u00f1\u00f1\u00e2ta-bh. pathamam | 209 | 10 | \n| | 30. | Likkhavi-bh. nitthitam | 233 | 24 | \n| | 33. | Katu-v\u00eesati-bh. nitthitam | 240 | 7 | \n| | 40. | | 251 | 11 | \n| KHANDHAKA | VII. | | | | \n| Chapter | 7. | Ad\u00e2ya-bh. nitthitam | 259 | 7 | \n| | 13. | | 265 | 6 | \n| KHANDHAKA | VIII. | | | | \n| Chapter | 1. | Pathamaka-bh. nitthitam | 281 | 14 | \n| | 15. | Vis\u00e2kh\u00e2-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 294 | 13 | \n| | 32. | | 310 | 16 | \n| KHANDHAKA | IX. | | | | \n| Chapter | 4. | V\u00e2sabha-g\u00e2ma-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram pathamam | 322 | 11 | \n| | 6. | Up\u00e2li-pukkh\u00e2-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram dutiyam | 328 | 6 | \n| | 7. | | 333 | 5 | \n| KHANDHAKA | X. | | | | \n| Chapter | 2. | Digh\u00e2vu-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram pathamam | 349 | 13 | \n| | 6. | | 359 | 10 | \n| | | KULLAVAGGA. | | | \n| KHANDHAKA | I-IV. | None. | | | \n| KHANDHAKA | V. | | | | \n| Chapter | 21. | Dutiya-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 129 | 25 | \n| | 37. | | 143 | 14 | \n| KHANDHAKA | VI. | | | | \n| Chapter | 3. | Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram nitthitam pathamam | 154 | 9 | \n| | 11. | Dutiya-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 167 | 13 | \n| | 21. | | 177 | 10 | \n| KHANDHAKA | VII. | | | | \n| Chapter | 2. | Pathamaka-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram nitthitam | 188 | 9 | \n| | 3. | Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram nitthitam dutiyam | 198 | 10 | \n| | 5. | Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram nitthitam tatiyam | 206 | 8 | \n| KHANDHAKA | VIII. | | | | \n| Chapter | 4. | Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram pathamam | 215 | 8 | \n| | 12. | Dutiya-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 231 | 16 | \n| | 14. | | 231 | --- | \n| p. 417 | | | | | \n| KHANDHAKA | IX. | | | | \n| Chapter | 3. | Pathamo bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ro 1 | 247 | 12 | \n| | 5. | | 251 | 4 | \n| KHANDHAKA | X. | | | | \n| Chapter | 8. | Pathama-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 261 | 9 | \n| | 16. | Dutiya-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 271 | 10 | \n| | 27. | Tatiya-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 281 | 10 | \n| KHANDHAKA | XI. | has none | 292 | 9 | \n| KHANDHAKA | XII. | | | | \n| Chapter | 1. | Pathama-bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ram | 301 | 8 | \n| | 2. | | 307 | 6 | \nOn this it may be observed--\n1. The last Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ra in each Khandhaka is not referred to either by name or by number, except in Mah\u00e2vagga II, and in Kullavagga VII and X. In the Mah\u00e2vagga fourteen of the Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras have special titles, independent of their number in the particular Khandhaka.\n2. Probably two Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras in Mah\u00e2vagga V, all the Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras in Kullavagga I-IV, and the first in Kullavagga V, are not noticed in the printed text.\n3. Making allowance for these we have in the Mah\u00e2vagga 31 (? 32) Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras, occupying about 350 pages of P\u00e2li text, and about 610 pages in our translation. In books V-XII of the Kullavagga we have 20 Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras, occupying about 200 pages of P\u00e2li text, and about 350 pages in our translation. Total 51 (? 52) Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras, occupying about 550 pages of P\u00e2li, and about 960 pages of translation.\n4. As in the printed text repetitions have been avoided by a mode of reference to former passages which was impossible in the MSS., the average length of the matter contained in a Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ra, as written much more in full in the MSS., would be somewhat greater than its average length as actually printed. It would probably amount to what, if printed verbatim, would occupy in space not much less than a sheet of the size and type used in the edition of the text. Thus the three Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras in Mah\u00e2vagga VIII, which owing to the subject-matter are printed with only a few such contractions, occupy respectively 14, 13, and 16 pages of the text.\n5. The recital in the usual sara-bha\u00f1\u00f1a (or intonation, see Kullavagga V, 3) of such a 'portion for recitation' would occupy in time about half-an-hour.\n6. Spence Hardy informs us in his 'Eastern Monachism' (p. 168) that the D\u00eegha Nik\u00e2ya contains 64, the Magghima Nik\u00e2ya 80, the Samyutta Nik\u00e2ya 100, and the A\u1e45guttara Nik\u00e2ya 120 Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras. In fact it is only a few of the longer Suttas in the first two collections which are actually divided into Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras in the MSS.; and only the longer Nip\u00e2tas in the A\u1e45guttara. There are no Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras in the Eka- and Duka-Nip\u00e2tas of that collection; and there are also none in the Samyutta Nik\u00e2ya, and none in any of the books of the later literature contained in the Abhidhamma Pitaka (including all those in the Khuddaka Nik\u00e2ya) as yet published.\n417:1 Sic. This is the only instance in the Vinaya of a masculine use of the word.\n7. The division into Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras is not made use of in many books of the Pitakas themselves, or in the fifth-century commentaries of Buddhaghosa and others. In the Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga it is only used in P\u00e2r\u00e2gikas I-III, and in the Pariv\u00e2ra not at all. When Spence Hardy says therefore (loc. cit. p. 172) that the Pitakas and commentaries combined contain 5347 Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras, he must be referring to a mere calculation and not to the actual use of the MSS. On the other hand, the fact of Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras being used in the D\u00eepavamsa and the Khudda-sikkh\u00e2 may possibly afford some clue to the age in which those works were composed.","title":"SBE 20: Note on the Bh\u00e2nav\u00e2ras","type":"page"}