Itivuttaka

So It Was Said

112 short discourses in mixed prose and verse, arranged in the Aṅguttara style of ascending numbered sets, from one to four. Alone among Buddhist texts, its survival is attributed not to the Saṅgha, but to a laywoman named Khujjuttarā. According to the Pali commentaries, she was a maid to the queen of Kosambī, and memorized these teachings from the Buddha, earning her the title of the most learned of the laywomen disciples.

• EkakanipātaThe Book of the Ones27 ข้อ
• DukanipātaThe Book of the Twos22 ข้อ
• TikanipātaThe Book of the Threes50 ข้อ
• CatukkanipātaThe Book of the Fours13 ข้อ