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The
Saṃyutta Nikāya is the third book of the Sutta Piṭaka,
the second division of the Tipiṭaka, the sacred
scriptures of Buddhism. The word saṃyutta means
'connected' or 'related'. Traditionally there is said to be 7762
suttas or discourses in this book, but actually there
are not quite 3,000. These discourses are arranged roughly according
to features they share - subject matter, whether they have verses in
them, where they were spoken or the people they were spoken to. A
large proportion of the discourses in the Saṃyutta Nikāya open
by saying: ‘At Sāvatthi’, which suggests that this
book was arranged in that city.
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