[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s3.t1.67 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.67 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.67 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s3.t1.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.67) Suttas Nos. 41 and 42 may be taken as significant of the manner in which the collection originated. The latter, with the exception of a short introduction, is literally identical with No. 41. Elsewhere, too, the same sermons or dialogues recur, only in a different setting. Thus, for example, Nos. 132-134 are only different versions of one and the same sermon. These are probably sermons which were actually delivered by the monks;²) if nothing better occurred to him, a monk would repeat an already existing sermon with slight alterations. The collectors then collected \*everything\*, from the lips of any preacher, on which they could possibly lay hands.³) - [Previous: v2.c19.s3.t1.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.66) - [Next: v2.c19.s3.t1.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.68) - [Up: v2.c19.s3.t1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1) ## Cites (1) - [Majjhimanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t1.67) · Pramāṇa