A compilation of twenty-seven extracts from the five Nikáyas, chiefly from the Khuddaka Pátha. It also includes several suttas and all the well-known Parittas (q.v.). The date of compilation and the author are not known. There is a commentary to the book called the Sárattha-Samuccaya, written by a pupil of Ananda Vanaratana Thera, and a Sinhalese paraphrase of the eighteenth century, written by Saranankara Sangharája. See Introd. to Sárattha-Samuccaya (H.B.S.); also Gv.65, 75.


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