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² M. *Anesaki* (Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 35, 1908, Part 2, p. 83 f.) thinks that both the Pāli Aṅguttaranikāya and the Chinese Ekottarāgama bear traces indicating that this collection is later than the three others. Moreover, it contains the greatest number of quotations which are given *as* quotations. However, the Nikāyas or other collections are never cited as such, but only separate Suttas or portions of a collection. Thus, for instance, in Aṅg. X, 26, 2, a verse which occurs in Saṃy., IV, 3, 5 (I, p. 126) is not quoted as being taken from the *Saṃy.*, but with the words: "Thus it was said by the Sublime One (bhagavatā) in the questions of the daughters (of Māra)." Aṅg. III, 32 quotes verses from the "Pārāyana" (not from the "Suttanipāta" in which we find the Pārāyana). In the same way, the quotation in Saṃy. 22, 4 from the "Sakkapañha" does not prove that it was taken from the Dīghanikāya. Cf. *Eliot*, I, p. 279 n. 1; *Rhys Davids* in Cambridge History, I, p. 194; Mrs. *Rhys Davids* in Prefatory Note to Indexes of Aṅgutt. Ed., Vol. VI.