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1. Dīghanikāya (Dī.) is the collection of 3 long Suttas in 3 chapters (Vagga), 3

books names as Dīghanikāya, Sīlakhandhavagga, Dīghanikāya Mahāvagga,

and Dīghanikāya Pāṭikavagga. That is, they are Tipiṭaka Book 9, 10, 11

respectively. There are 34 Suttas all together.
2. Majjhimanikāya (M.) is the collection of the middle long Suttas. The

Nikāya consists of 3 units (Paṇṇāsaka) or 3 books: Mūlapaṇṇāsaka,

Majjhimapaṇṇāsaka, Uparipaṇṇāsaka. There are 152 Suttas in this
collection. Majjhimanikāya is listed as Tipiṭaka Books 12, 13, 14

respectively.

3. Saṅyuttanikāya (Saṅ) is the collection of the kindred sayings connected in

chapters (Nipāta). There are 11 Chapters in form of 5 volumes, consisting

of 9,557 Suttas. The 5 volumes are Eka-dukatikanipāta, Catukkanipāta,
Pañcaka-Chakkanipāta, Sattaka-Aṭṭhakanipāta-Navakanipāta, Dasaka-

Ekādasakanipāta. The collection is listed as Tipiṭaka Books 20, 21, 22, 23,

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4. Khuddakanikāya (Khu.) is the collection of the Minor Anthologies of the

Pāli Canon, consisting of Suttas, doctrine, explanation and miscellaneous

stories that are not included in the above 4 collections. There are 15

scriptures (Gantha) divided into 5 volumes: Khuddakapāṭha,

Dhammapada, Udāna, Itivuttaka, Suttanipāta (1), Vimānavatthu,
Petavatthu, Theragāthā, Therīgāthā (1), Jātaka (2), Niddes (Mahāniddesa

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(1), Cūḷaniddesa (1), Paṭisambhidāmagga (1), Apadāna (1 ),
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Buddhavaṁsa, Cariyāpiṭaka ( ). The collection is listed as Tipiṭaka Books
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25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 respectively.

In this Chapter, the Suttantapiṭaka, Dīghanikāya, Mahāvagga, which is
Volume 2 of Suttantapiṭaka Dīghanikāya, is cited to be studied. As the meaning,

Dīghanikāya is the long collection, Mahāvagga is Big Chapter (in this case “Chapter” is

the sub unit of Nikāya (collection)). The Dīghanikāya Mahāvagga consists of 10

Suttas of which the names, except two of them, begin with the word “Mahā.” They
are called as follows: