 | Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera - Buddha (The concept) - 1928 - 360 pages
...in a single misplacement by transposition, nay, not even in the Thera controversies, or in the text was there, in the measure of a verse or in the letter...of a word, the slightest variation. Thereupon the monks, rejoicing again and again, fervently shouted, saying : ' Most assuredly this is Metteyya himself,'... | |
 | James De Alwis - Sinhalese language - 1852 - 316 pages
...and condensing them into an abridged form, he composed the commentary called the ' Wihiuddsmaggan.' " Thereupon the priesthood, rejoicing, again and again...fervently shouted forth, saying, ' Most assuredly this is Metteyyo(Budha) himself,' and made over to him the books in which the Pitakattaya were recorded, together... | |
 | Reginald Stephen Copleston - Religion - 1984 - 326 pages
...third time, for the purpose of propounding it, the devatas restored the other two copies also. Thera controversies and in the text of the Pitakattaya — was there in the measure of a verso, or in a letter of a word, the slightest variation. " Thereupon the priesthood rejoicing again... | |
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... restored the other two copies also. The assembled priests then read out the three books simultaneously. In those three versions, neither in a signification nor in a single misplacement by... 
