INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following religious text is written in the form of questions and answers? Notes: The Abhidhamma Pitaka is a detailed scholastic analysis and summary of the Buddha’s teachings in the Suttas. Everything written in this is in the form of question and answer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Modern Western scholarship, however, generally dates the origin of the Abhidhamma Pitaka to sometime around the third century BCE, 100 to 200 years after the death of the Buddha.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sutta Pitaka was a collection of Lord Buddha’s Sermons on matters of doctrine and ethics. The Abhidhamma Pitaka deals with the matters of metaphysics and psychology. These three Pitakas were collectively called as Triratnas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sutta Pitaka is a monastic code compiled by Upali. ii. Vinaya Pitaka are Buddhist teachings compiled by Ananda.