Samyuttanikaya

The Samyuttha Nikaya is the third collection of discourses in the ßutta piTaka of the PAli Canon. There are five vaggas and fifty six saMyuttas and those saMyuttas are named with related to subject matters of discourses for example what was preached to gods came under ∂evattasaMyutta, the discourses given to king Kosala came under KosalasaMyutta likewise all saMyuttas were named so. And some discourses which we came across in previous collections are once again we get in this collection too in short explanation.  According to Ven. Buddhaghosa the great Pāli commentaries calculation of discourses in the Anurādhapura period this nikAya has seven thousand seven hundred sixty-two discourses grouped in five sections.

            Although in ßaMyutta nikAya there are short discourses but it covers the entire Buddhist philosophy. By reading the ßaMyuttanikAya alone one can get a sound knowledge of almost every aspect of Buddhist teachings and practices. 

Here the five vaggas and their corresponding saMyuttas are given in below as:

1. ßagathavagga – 11 ßaMyuttas

∂evatasaMyutta   

∂evaputtasaMyutta

KosalasaMyutta      

µarasaMyutta         

BhikkhunisaMyutta   

BrahamasaMyutta

BrahamanasaMyutta

VangisasaMyutta

VanasaMyutta

YakkasaMyutta

YakkasaMyutta

2. ñidAnavagga –10 ßaMyuttas

ñidānasaMyutta        

åbhisamayasaMyutta

∂hatusaMyutta         

ånamataggasaMyutta  

KassapasaMyutta       

LabhasakkarasaMyutta

®ahulasaMyutta  

LakkhanasaMyutta   

OpammasaMyutta     

BhikkusaMyutta

3. Khandhavagga –13 ßaMyuttas

KhandhasaMyutta    

®AdhasaMyutta         

∂iTTthisaMyuta             

OkkantikasaMyutta     

üppAdasaMyutta         

ßAriputtasaMyutta        

ßupaNNasaMyutta

ñAgasaMyutta

ßupaNNasaMyutta

GandhabakayasaMyutta

ValahakasaMyutta

VacchagotttasaMyutta

JhAnasaMyutta

4. ßalayatavagga –10 ßaMyuttas

ßalayatanasaMyutta         

VedanasaMyutta             

µAtugAmasaMyutta         

JambukhadakasaMyutta    

ßamandakasaMyutta        

µoggallanasaMyutta

CittasaMyutta

GAminisaMyutta

åsankhatasaMyutta

åvyakatasaMyutta

µahavagga –12 ßaMyuttas

µaggasaMyutta                 

BojjhangasaMyutta            

ßAtipatthanasaMyutta         

îndriyasaMyutta                 

ßammappadhanasaMyutta 

BalasaMyutta                    

îddhipadasaMyutta

îddhipadasaMyutta

ånuruddhasaMyutta

JhAnasaMyutta

ånapanasaMyutta

ßotApattisaMyutta

ßaccasaMyutta