Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t4.8

v2.c35.s3.t4.8

The relation of the sūtras of the *Madhyamāgama* to those of the *Majjhima Nikāya* is similar to the *Dīgha*. Of the 152 suttas in the three volumes of the *Majjhima*, only 19 suttas are omitted in the Āgama, viz., *Cūḷasāropama* (no. 30), *Mahāsaccaka* (no. 36), *Sāleyyaka* (no. 41), *Verañjaka* (no. 42), *Kandaraka* (no. 51), *Jīvaka* (no. 55), *Kukkuravatika* (no. 57), *Abhayarājakumāra* (no. 58), *Apaṇṇaka* (no. 60), *Tevijja-Vacchagotta* (no. 71), *Ghoṭamukha* (no. 94), *Caṅkī* (no. 95), *Vāseṭṭha* (no. 98), *Saṅgārava* (no. 100), *Pañcattaya* (no. 102), *Kiṃtī* (no. 103), *Sunakkhatta* (no. 105), *Anupada* (no. 111) and *Bhaddekaratta* (no. 131). In the *Madhyamāgama*, there are in all 222 sūtras, 82 of which correspond to the suttas in the *Aṅguttara*, 10 to suttas in the *Saṃyutta*, 9 to those in the *Dīgha* and rest to suttas in the *Majjhima*. There are a few of these suttas in Pāli not found in the Āgama., while a few stray suttas correspond to passages in the *Suttanipāta*, *Thera-theri-gāthā* and Vinaya (*Mahāvagga*). In view of the mixture of the suttas from two or three Nikāyas in this Āgama we can hardly expect much agreement in the order of the arrangement of the sūtras.