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 1 Notes|         only. ~ ~There are many versions of the Dhammapada now extant:
 2 Notes|  Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese versions of a text called the Udanavarga,
 3 Notes|     among the Pali and non-Pali versions are even greater. They arrange
 4 Notes|         the verses in different versions that are related, the similarity
 5 Notes|      deciding which of the many versions of a Handel oratorio to
 6 Notes|    issues raised by the variant versions of Dhp have, by and large,
 7 Notes|       most authentic, and which versions are later and more corrupt.
 8 Notes|     landmarks against which the versions can be sighted, scholars
 9 Notes| criteria. If, for instance, two versions of a verse differ in that
10 Notes|     coinciding with none of the versions extant. In other words,
11 Notes|      author, and that all other versions must be later corruptions.
12 Notes|        we can view the multiple versions of the text as a sign, not
13 Notes|       that manuscripts of other versions of the text were also available