↑ Jones (1949), p. xi, writes: ""... the Mahāvastu is not the composition of a single author written in a well-defined period of time. Rather, it is a compilation which may have been begun in the second century B.C., but which was not completed until the third or fourth century A.D."
↑ Regarding the Dhammapada parallels, see Ānandajoti (2007), "Introduction," where Ānandajoti writes: