Bhikkhu Sujato · English Selected edition
- Language
- English
- Contents
- Book and chapter names come from the structural headings in each published discourse.
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- SuttaCentral published repository
- Rights
- CC0 · Bhikkhu Sujato
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The Book of the Ones · Chapter One
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Mahāsaṅgīti · Pali Selected edition
- Language
- Pali
- Contents
- Book and chapter names come from the structural headings in each published discourse.
- Credits
- SuttaCentral published repository
- Rights
- Public domain · Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka Buddhavasse 2500
Sayings transmitted in prose and verse
The collection
The Pali title Itivuttaka recalls the formula that introduces a teaching as something said by the Buddha and heard by another. The collection belongs to the Khuddaka Nikāya in the Theravāda canon. Its 112 discourses are divided into groups associated with ones, twos, threes and fours. That numerical arrangement supplies a framework for teachings that often occupy only a small amount of space on a modern page.
Prose and verse
A saying commonly appears first in prose and then in verse. The two forms can bring out different aspects of a subject. A verse may supply a memorable image where the prose names the quality under discussion. Greed, hate and delusion, for example, occupy successive discourses at the beginning of the collection. The recurring opening and closing formulas give these separate sayings a recognizable voice.
Editions in this library
The Pali edition here is the Mahāsaṅgīti text published by SuttaCentral. Bhikkhu Sujato’s English translation retains the boundaries of the individual discourses. An identifier such as Iti 3 refers to a whole saying with its prose and verse. The smaller divisions visible inside it allow the wording of a particular statement to be distinguished from the verses that accompany it.