Puvva

…The two sects have different scriptures. According to the legend of the White Robe Sect, the first scripture compilation meeting was held in Pataliputra around the 3rd century BCE, where memories of ancient scriptures (14 Puvvas; hereafter, the names of the scriptures will be written in their vernacular form) were collected and compiled into 12 Aṅgas, but it was the compilation meeting at Ballabi in western India around the 5th century that finally compiled them into the present form. …

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…両派はそれぞれ異なる聖典をもつ。白衣派では伝説によると，前3世紀ころパータリプトラで開かれた最初の聖典編纂会議で古聖典(14のプッバPuvva。以下，聖典名は俗語形で記す)に関する記憶が集められ12のアンガAṅgaが編纂されたというが，最終的にまとめられて現形を得たのは，5世紀ころ西インドのバラビーにおける編纂会議であった。…

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