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Saṅgītisutta (The Discourse on Communal Recitation)
18D/10, the tenth discourse of the Dīgha Nikāya's Pāthikavaggapāḷi: Sāriputta recites the Dhamma arranged by number, from ones to tens, so that the bhikkhū may recite it together and not quarrel. Translated in eleven parts.
1. Ubbhatakanavasandhāgāra (The New Assembly Hall at Ubbhataka)
2The Bhagavā at Pāvā accepts the Mallas' new assembly hall, teaches them for much of the night and asks āyasmā Sāriputta to address the bhikkhū. The opening of the Saṅgītisutta (8D/10), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
10. Navaka (Nines)
3The ninth section of the Saṅgītisutta (8D/10): six groups of nine Dhammas recited by āyasmā Sāriputta: resentment and its dispelling, the abodes of beings, the inappropriate times for the optimal life, and the successive stages in meditation and their cessations. Translated from the Dīghanikāya.
11. Dasaka (Tens)
4The last section of the Saṅgītisutta (8D/10): six lists of ten, from the Dhammas providing protection to the Dhammas of one beyond training, and the Bhagavā's approval of āyasmā Sāriputta's recital.
2. Bhinnanigaṇṭhavatthu (The Breakup of the Jains)
5After Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta's death his followers quarrel; āyasmā Sāriputta tells the bhikkhū that the Bhagavā's well-proclaimed Dhamma should be recited by all in harmony, and asks what it is. The Saṅgītisutta (8D/10), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
3. Ekaka and Duka (Ones and Pairs)
6The Ones and the thirty-three Pairs of Sāriputta's recitation, from name and form to knowledge and liberation. The Saṅgītisutta (8D/10), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
4. Tika (Threes)
7The sixty Threes of Sāriputta's recitation, from the three unwholesome roots to the three kinds of miracles. The Saṅgītisutta (8D/10), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
5. Catukka (Fours)
8The fifty four-item lists of the Saṅgītisutta: the reflections, the right exertions, the bases of success, the mental dispositions, the immeasurables, the formless states, the foods, the floods, the yokes, the persons and the ways, from the four kinds of knowledge to the four analytical knowledges. Translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
6. Pañcaka (Fives)
9The Fives of the Saṅgītisutta (8D/10): twenty-six sets of five Dhammas, from the collections and the hindrances to the five escapes and the bases for liberation, recited by āyasmā Sāriputta for the bhikkhū to chant in harmony.
7. Chakka (Sixes)
10The Sixes of the Saṅgītisutta (8D/10): twenty-two sets of six Dhammas, from the six sense bases to the six roots of dispute and the six escapes by mental liberation, recited by āyasmā Sāriputta for the bhikkhū to chant together. Translated from the Dīghanikāya.
8. Sattaka (Sevens)
11The seventh section of the Saṅgītisutta (8D/10): fourteen groups of seven Dhammas recited by āyasmā Sāriputta, from the kinds of wealth of the liberated to the seven ways of settling issues. Translated from the Dīghanikāya.
9. Aṭṭhaka (Eights)
12The eight-item lists of the Saṅgītisutta: the wrongnesses and rightnesses, the persons worthy of gifts, the grounds for laziness and for effort, the grounds for giving and the reappearances it brings, the assemblies, the worldly matters, the bases of mastery and the liberations. Translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.