Synopsis The Book This collection consists of passages from the Vinaya Pitaka, the Four Great Nikayas (Digha-Majjhima-, Samyatta-, and Anguttara-Nikayas), and those parts of the Short Nikaya, such as Dhammapada, Itivuttaka, Udana, and Sutta Nipata, (the-named contains some of the oldest parts of the Pali Canon). Where the Buddha is represented as speaking, both in prose and verse. The Author has included the whole of the Khuddaka-Patna, which tradition has regarded as containing ‘the whole duty’ of the Buddhist. How much of this is the genuine utterance of the Budha, and how much is worked up and put into the case of the verse passages), cannot be accurately decided. In the use of terms the author has generally adopted those evolved, during the labours of many years, by the late Professor and Dr. C.A. Rhys Davids. The references are to the editions of the Pali Text Society, except in the case Vinaya.