Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c8.12

c8.12

Thus all the suttas of the Pali Dīgha can be evidenced in the Āgamas, though not necessarily in the Dīgha. That only suggests the conclusion that the division between the DN and the MN was not a watertight one, which is very plausible otherwise also. These two collections appear to have been made out of a not very dissimilar material along the rough test of the size of the suttas. Consequently a certain difference of opinion between the sects as to the exact position to be assigned to a particular sutta in this or that collection is easily intelligible.⁶