The History of Buddhist Thought c11.s2.17

c11.s2.17

The monks of the great Council made a reversed teaching. They broke up the original collection (of the Scriptures) and made another collection.
They put the Sutta collected in one place elsewhere. They broke up the sense and the doctrine in the five Nikāyas . . .
The Parivāra, the summary of the sense (of the Vinaya), the six sections of the Abhidhamma, the Paṭisambhidā, the Niddesa, and part of the Jātaka—so much they set aside and made others.