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    "slug": "sutta-nipata",
    "name": "Sutta-Nipāta",
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    "epoch_reflected": "indian",
    "epoch_written": "greco-latin",
    "form": "suttas in verse + prose",
    "tradition": "Buddhist (Theravada)",
    "author": "Anonymous Buddhist canonical text",
    "year_approx": -100,
    "note": "The earliest layer of the Pāli canon — short suttas in verse and prose, arranged in five *vaggas* (Uragavagga, Cūlavagga, Mahāvagga, Aṭṭhakavagga, Pārāyanavagga). Khuddaka Nikāya of the Sutta Piṭaka. Fausböll's 1881 translation.",
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      "num": 1,
      "slug": "30-glossary",
      "title": "Glossary",
      "words": 286,
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      "subtitle": "Fausböll's glossary of Pāli terms",
      "blurb": "V. Fausböll's prefatory glossary to his 1881 translation: principal Pāli terms (Buddha, Dhamma, Saṅgha, Nibbāna, Saṃsāra, the four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path) with English equivalents and contextual notes."
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      "num": 2,
      "slug": "31-i-uragavagga",
      "title": "I. Uragavagga.",
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      "subtitle": "I. Uragavagga — the Snake-section",
      "blurb": "The opening Uragavagga (Sn 1.1–1.12). Twelve suttas including the great Uraga Sutta (the bhikkhu sheds craving as a snake sheds its skin), the Khaggavisāṇa Sutta (Rhinoceros — the solitary path), Metta Sutta (loving-kindness), Maṅgala Sutta (the great blessings), and Ratana Sutta (the three jewels)."
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      "num": 3,
      "slug": "32-ii-kûlavagga",
      "title": "II. Kûlavagga.",
      "words": 7394,
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      "subtitle": "II. Cūlavagga — the Lesser Section",
      "blurb": "Fourteen suttas (Sn 2.1–2.14) on diverse practical themes — the practitioner's life (Āmagandha, Hiri, Maṅgala continued, Sūciloma), the parable of the boat, the right and wrong dhamma, the proper way of conduct in body, speech, and mind."
    },
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      "num": 4,
      "slug": "33-iii-mahâvagga",
      "title": "III. Mahâvagga.",
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      "subtitle": "III. Mahāvagga — the Greater Section",
      "blurb": "Twelve longer suttas (Sn 3.1–3.12) recording extended exchanges. Includes the Pabbajjā Sutta (the Buddha's renunciation), the Padhāna Sutta (the great striving against Māra), the Sundarikabhāradvāja Sutta (true Brahmin), Kokālika, and the Two Marks of the Great Man."
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      "slug": "34-iv-atthakavagga",
      "title": "IV. Atthakavagga.",
      "words": 9037,
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      "subtitle": "IV. Aṭṭhakavagga — the Group of Eights",
      "blurb": "Among the oldest strata of the Buddhist canon. Sixteen suttas (Sn 4.1–4.16) on the abandonment of views, attachments, and dogmatic positions. The Atthakavagga's anti-doctrinal teaching is older than the systematized later doctrine and is referenced by name in other canonical texts."
    },
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      "slug": "35-v-pârâyanavagga",
      "title": "V. Pârâyanavagga.",
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      "subtitle": "V. Pārāyanavagga — the Way to the Far Shore",
      "blurb": "Closes the Sutta Nipāta. Sixteen suttas (Sn 5.1–5.18) — the prologue, the questions of the sixteen brahmin pupils of Bāvarī addressed to the Buddha, and the epilogue. With the Aṭṭhakavagga, the oldest core of the canon."
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