Suttanipāta untranslated

Suttanipāta. One of the books, generally the fifth, of the Khuddakanikāya. It consists of five Vaggas – Uraga, Cūḷa, Mahā, Aṭṭhaka and Pārāyaṇa – the first four consisting of fifty-four short lyrics, while the fifth contains sixteen Suttas. Of the thirty-eight poems in the first three cantos, six are found in other books of the canon, showing that they had probably existed separately, as popular poems, before being incorporated in the Suttanipāta. The fourth canto is referred to in the Saṁyuttanikāya, the Vinayapiṭaka and the Udāna, as a separate work, and this canto was probably very closely associated with the last, because the Niddesa is obviously an old Commentary on them and takes no notice of the remaining cantos (for a detailed account see Law, Pāli Literature i.232f.) The Dīghabhāṇakas included the Suttanipāta in the Abhidhammapiṭaka (DN­a.i.15).

A Commentary exists on the Suttanipāta, written by Buddhaghosa, and called the Paramatthajotikā (q.v.).