codifications

Updated: May 28, 2025

It includes histories, juridical codifications, dramas of love and destiny, patriotic songs and state anthems, the hymnal of a people's worship, philosophic writings of the sages, collections of proverbial sayings, works of religious fiction, orations of statesmen, and oracles of mystic seers.

R. Heber Newton - The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible

Thus nearly the whole of the long Sutta describing the Buddha's last days and death , which at first sight seems to be a connected narrative somewhat different from other Suttas, is found scattered in other parts of the Canon. Thus our oldest texts whether Brahmanic or Buddhist are editions and codifications, perhaps amplifications, of a considerably older oral teaching.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1