Udanavarga
The Udānavarga is an early Buddhist collection of topically organized chapters () of aphoristic verses or "utterances" (Sanskrit: "udāna") attributed to the Buddha and his disciples. While not part of the Pali Canon, the "Udānavarga" has many chapter titles, verses and an overall format similar to those found in the Pali Canon's Dhammapada and "Udāna". At this time, there exist one Sanskrit recension, two Chinese recensions and two or three Tibetan recensions of the "Udānavarga". Content. The "Udānavarga" has around 1100 verses in 33 chapters. The chapter titles are: Comparatively, the most common version of the Dhammapada, in Pali , has 423 verses in 26 chapters. Comparing the "Udānavarga", Pali Dhammapada and the Gandhari Dharmapada, Brough (2001) identifies that the texts have in common 330 to 340 verses, 16 chapter headings and an underlying structure. History. The "Udānavarga" is attributed by Brough to the Sarvāstivādins. Hinüber suggests that a text similar to the Pali Canon's "Udāna" formed the original core of the Sanskrit "Udānavarga", to which verses from the Dhammapada were added. Brough allows for the hypothesis that the "Udānavarga", the Pali Dhammapada and the Gandhari Dharmapada all have a "common ancestor" but underlines that there is no evidence  that any one of these three texts might have been the "primitive Dharmapada" from which the other two evolved. The Tibetan Buddhist and Chinese Buddhist canons' recensions are traditionally said to have been compiled by Dharmatrāta.