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Thanks Kaarine! You're so smart! Personally, I'm trying to suspend my judgments on this until I've sorted out all the information, but some of the references in the new Tricycle article, Who's Buddhism Is Truest? (there's a thread here about it with Gandhari Scrolls in the title), challenges the "first in time" contention.

How it was recorded, who recorded it, how was taken into a scripture do not detract from the fact that it is the first in time[BuckyG's emphasis].