Khuddakanikāya untranslated

Khuddakanikāya. Sometimes called Khuddakagantha DN-a.i.16.. The fifth and last division of the Suttapiṭaka.

It consists of fifteen independent treatises, some belonging to the earlier period, while others may be ascribed to the later stratum of the Pāli Canon. This Nikāya is composed for the most part in verse, and contains all the most important collections of Pāli poetry.

The fifteen books are:

(1) Khuddakapāṭha

(2) Dhammapada

(3) Udāna

(4) Itivuttaka

(5) Suttanipāta

(6) Vimānavatthu

(7) Petavatthu

(8) Theragāthā

(9) Therīgāthā

(10) Jātaka

(11) Niddesas (Mahā Niddesa and Cūḷa Niddesa)

(12) Paṭisambhidāmagga

(13) Apadāna

(14) Buddhavaṁsa

(15) Cariyāpiṭaka (Vin-a.i.18; DN­a.i.17).

According to another classification the whole of the Vinayapiṭaka and the Abhidhammapiṭaka and all the teachings of the Buddha, not included in the remaining four Nikāyas, are regarded as forming the Khuddakanikāya (DN­a.i.23; Vin-a.i.27).

The Dīghabhāṇakas refused to accept the authenticity of the Khuddakapāṭha, Cariyāpiṭaka, and the Apadāna, and included the other books as part of the Abhidhammapiṭaka.

The Majjhimabhāṇakas did not accept the Khuddakapāṭha but acknowledged the rest, and included them in the Suttapiṭaka (DN­a.i.15).

According to Burmese tradition four other later books are added to this list: Milindapañha, Suttasaṅgaha, Peṭakopadesa, and Nettippakaraṇa. Bode, 4.