The Dhatukatha (dhātukathā) is a Buddhist scripture, part of the
Pali Canon
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon. It derives mainly from the Tamrashatiya school.
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Theravada
''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...
Buddhism, where it is included in the
Abhidhamma Pitaka.
Translation: ''Discourse on Elements'', tr U Narada, 1962,
Pali Text Society
Bristol
This book combines ideas from the two preceding abhidhamma books, the
Dhammasangani and
Vibhanga. It is in the form of questions and answers, grouped into 14 chapters by form. Thus the first chapter asks of each item covered, "In how many aggregates, bases and elements is it included?" Later chapters progress to more complex questions like "From how many aggregates etc. are the dhammas dissociated from the dhammas associated with it dissociated?"Dhatukatha is a treatise which studies the dhammas analysed in Dhammasahgani
and Vibhanga, in fourteen ways of analytical investigation.
Abhidhamma Pitaka
Theravada Buddhist texts
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