遊行者スッピヤと弟子ブラフマダッタに説かれた『長部』第一経で、自我と世界についての六十二の思弁的見解を分類する前に、道徳的戒律を三つの段階に分けて述べる。

The first discourse of the Dīghanikāya, taught to the wanderer Suppiya and his disciple Brahmadatta, setting out the moral precepts in three graded sections before classifying sixty-two speculative views about the self and the world.