Pāthikavagga-Aṭṭhakathā

1. Pāthikasutta: Explains Sunakkhatta’s story, rival ascetics, claims concerning miracles, and discussion of cosmological origins. 2. Udumbariyasutta: Comments on Nigrodha the wanderer, ascetic practices, defilements of religious discipline, and the Buddhist understanding of purified brahmacariya. 3. Cakkavattisutta: Discusses self-reliance in Dhamma, the wheel-turning monarch, righteous rule, moral decline, shortening and lengthening of lifespan, and future renewal. 4. Aggaññasutta: Explains the origin of society, class distinctions, kingship, moral conduct, and the development of wholesome qualities. 5. Sampasādanīyasutta: Presents Sāriputta’s lion’s roar, confidence in the Buddha, doctrinal classifications, and the disappearance of the Tipiṭaka and the Buddha’s dispensation. 6. Pāsādikasutta: Comments on the death of Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta, proper preservation of the Dhamma, communal recitation, discipline, questions, and undeclared matters. 7. Lakkhaṇasutta: Explains the thirty-two marks of a great person and their karmic causes. 8. Siṅgālasutta: Interprets lay ethics, the six directions, dangers of misconduct, false friends, true friends, and household responsibilities. 9. Āṭānāṭiyasutta: Presents commentary on the protective discourse and related paritta practice. 10. Saṅgītisutta: Explains the communal recitation of doctrinal categories arranged numerically from ones to tens. 11. Dasuttarasutta: Comments on another structured doctrinal summary arranged by numerical groups from one to ten.