The Visuddhimagga and the Samantapāsādikā

According to the legends, the Visuddhimagga and the Samantapasadika were written by Buddhaghosa in this order. We do not have any positive evidence which prove that both works are really by Buddhaghosa. It is certain, however, that the Samantapasadika was composed later than the Visuddhimagga, since a lot of phrases in the latter were quoted in the former. In this article, I examined the relation of these texts by comparing the corresponding phrases in the Visuddhimagga and the Samantapasadika. As a result, I confirmed the following two facts. 1. When the Samantapasadika quotes phrases from the Visuddhmagga, they were emended elaborately to avoid contradictions in the new contexts. 2. From the fact that the Samantapasadika changed the contents of the quotations from the Visuddhimagga, it can be seen that the Samantapasadika and the Visuddhimagga disagreed on some points of doctrine. On these points, the Samantapasadika's opinions agree with those of the Vimuttimagga. Therefore it seems that these discrepancies reflect the differencies of doctrine between the Abhayagiri and the Mahavihara