Die vierte Unterteilung des Sutta Pitaka, bestehend aus elf Sektionen (nipāta) und 9,557 Sutten (A.v.361; DA.i.23; Gv.56).
The suttas are arranged in numbered lists, probably as aids to memory. Thus we find set out in order first the units, then the pairs, the trios etc., up to groups of eleven. This method of arrangement has evidently influenced the subject matter as well, for we seldom see any reasoned arguments. The lists are often curtly given and curtly explained (See also Hardy's remarks, A.v. introd. p.vii).
Beim ersten Konzil wurde Anuruddha gebeten der Beschützer des Anguttara Nikāya zu sein (DA.i.15; Mbv.94).
When the Buddha's religion fades away, the first portion of the Sutta Pitaka to disappear will be the Anguttara Nikāya from the eleventh section to the first, and in that order (MA.881).
It was also sometimes called Ekuttara. Mil. 392. It is worthy of note that the Ekottarāgama Sutra of the Chinese is unlike the Anguttara Nikāya (A.i. introd. ix., n.4).
The Anguttara Nikāya quotes the Parāyana, which is evidence of its late compilation. (i.133 and 134; ii.45. For other quotations in and from the Anguttara Nikāya see A.v., introd. p.ix., nn. 3 and 4.)
Der Kommentar zum Anguttara Nikāya heißt Manorathapūranī.