Saṁyuttanikāya untranslated

Saṁyuttanikāya, Saṁyuttāgama. One of the five divisions of the Suttapiṭaka. It consists of 7,762 Suttas (DN­a.i.17; Gv.56), and, at the First Council, was given in charge of Mahā Kassapa and his pupillary succession (nissitaka) (DN­a.i.15).

The Nikāya is divided into five main Vaggas and fifty-six sections, called Saṁyuttas, each Saṁyutta being again subdivided into minor Vaggas or chapters.

Buddhaghosa, wrote a Commentary on the Saṁyutta, called Sāraṭṭhappakāsinī.

The Saṁyuttanikāya is quoted in the Milindapañha, e.g., pp. 137, 242, 377, 379; see also Vin.ii.306, where an Uposathasaṁyutta is mentioned, but what is evidently meant is the Uposathakkhandhaka.

Kittisirirājasīha, king of Ceylon, had the Saṁyuttanikāya copied by scribes (Cv.xcix.33). One of the Saṁyuttas, the Anamatagga, was preached by Rakkhita in Vanavāsa (Mhv.xii.32) and by Mahinda in Ceylon (Mhv.xv.186), soon after their respective arrivals in these countries, at the conclusion of the Third Council. The Nikāya has been translated into Burmese. Bode, 92.