A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.69
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³ R. O. *Franke* has tried to trace a uniform fundamental idea and associations of thought underlying the various Suttas in the Majjhimanikāya too (WZKM 29, 1915, 134 ff.; ZDMG 68, 1914, 473 ff.) with a view to proving from it, that this book, too, is not a collection of sermons and dialogues, but the unified work of *one* author. The arguments in this case are, if anything, even less convincing than in the case of the Dīghanikāya. The very fact that we often find a "great" and a "small" Sutta on the same subject side by side in the Majjh. (*e. g.*, Cūḷa- and Mahā-Sīhanāda-Sutta), is evidence that the work is in the nature of a collection.