Or is it a relatively late sutta?
Do you mean KP9 Karaniya metta sutta?
We have this translation from Bhante Sujato… plus a lovely recording of Bhante chanting it.
And there at 6 other English translations. Just click the ‘parallels’ button on the top right to see the different versions.
Or do you mean AN 11.15 2 english translations
Or AN 8.1 - 2 english translations
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Yes. But is there a agama version. Or it’s just a Theravadin only sutta? Or tradition? It seems Sri Lankas was alot in Paritta. Questioning if Indians had them also.
Oh now I understand.
I believe that there isn’t Chinese version. This is just from memory based on a talk that I heard from Ajahn @brahmali
I suggest changing the title of your post as you’re looking for an Chinese or sanskrit version not an English one
I can’t edit anymore.
ok I’ve done it for you 
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Please keep in mind that, because the Chinese Agamas (let alone the bits in Tibetan and Sanskrit!) have come to us in such a fragmentary and piecemeal way, the lack of known parallels doesn’t (necessarily) mean that a Pāli sutta is late It just means we don’t have a parallel for it in the several, partial, Northern Canons. That’s all.
Yes I understand that. If it was popular in India even in meditation texts or abidharma works we should able to see it around the 3 century translations.
You know of this maybe? @cdpatton
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I’m not aware of a parallel, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one buried in the texts that haven’t been studied closely for parallels.
May they find one at Ghandhara buried somewhere. 