Commentarial explanations for sūkaramaddava

DN 16 or the entire DN/DA is a very late EBT according to Ven. YinShun’s The Formation of Early Buddhist Texts:

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According to the core teachings of the so-called sutra-anga portion of SN/SA, the Buddha is physically just a human.

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