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Sarvāstivāda school that corresponds to the Dhammapada (S. Dharmapada) in the Pāli scriptural tradition. The Udānavarga collects some 1,050 verses in thirty-three groups, or vargas, and is therefore more than twice as long as the Pāli Dhammapada, which includes 423 verses in twenty-six vaggas. Approximately 360 verses appear to be shared by the two texts. There are four translations of varying recensions of the Udānavarga cum Dharmapada made into Chinese, the earliest of which was produced by Zhu Fonian in 374 CE. The Tibetan translation (c. 900) of the Udānavarga is of an anthology compiled by Dharmatrāta (Chos skyob); it is included in both the Bka’ ’gyur and the Bstan ’gyur. There is also a Tibetan translation of a commentary by Prajñāvarman. The Udānavarga was one of the six basic texts (gzhung drug) of the Bka' gdams pa school. (Source: "Udānavarga." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 932. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
