# Saṃyutta Nikāya

Source: https://buddhisma2z.com/samyutta-nikaya/  
Author: Bhante S. Dhammika, *Guide To Buddhism A To Z*  
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

The Saṃyutta Nikāya is the third book of the [**Sutta Piṭaka**](https://buddhisma2z.com/sutta-pitaka/), the second division of the [**Tipiṭaka**](https://buddhisma2z.com/tipitaka/), the sacred [**scriptures**](https://buddhisma2z.com/scripture/) of Buddhism. The word *saṃyutta* means ‘connected’ or ‘related’. Traditionally there is said to be 7762 [**suttas**](https://buddhisma2z.com/sutta/) 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**](https://buddhisma2z.com/savatthi/)’ which suggests that this book was arranged in that city.

**Further reading:** The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, trans. by Bhikkhu Bodhi, 2000.

Subjects: Buddhist Scriptures