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About the book:-The Dhammapada Buddha A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists Translated from Pali by F. Max Muller Brand New CopyNew EditionFrom: The Sacred Books of the East Translated by Various Oriental Scholars Edited by F. Max Muller Volume X The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. His commentary, the Dhammapada Atthakatha, presents the details of these events and is a rich source of legend for the life and times of the Buddha. volume X also contain Sutta-Nipata. The collection of discourses, Sutta-Nipata. It contains some remnants of primitive budhism. About the Author:-Friedrich Max Muller was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious studies. He wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of a Turanian family of languages. Michael Viggo Fausboll (1821 –1908) was a Danish educator, translator, orientalist and linguist. He is most noted as a pioneer of Pali scholarship. born at Hove near Lemvig, Denmark. He became a student at the University of Copenhagen in 1838 and received his Cand.theol. in 1847. From 1878-1902 Fausboll was professor at the University of Copenhagen where he taught Sanskrit and East Indian philology, His version of the Dhammapada was published in 1855 with a new edition in 1900. It formed the basis for the first translation of this text into English, by philologist, Max Müller (1823–1900) in the Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. The Title 'The Sacred Books of the East (Part-1:- THE DHAMMAPADA, Part-2:- THE SUTTA-NIPATA) written/authored/edited by F. MAX MULLER, V. FAUSBOLL', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121260466 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 398 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:- 10th