『増支部』六集の一章で、その冒頭を飾る比丘ダンミカに関する経にちなんで名付けられた。

A chapter of the Book of Sixes in the Aṅguttaranikāya, named after the discourse concerning the monk Dhammika that opens it.

訪問した比丘たちを侮辱したため在家支援者に追放された不快な比丘ダンミカに対し、過去の師たちの物語を例に用いて隠者にふさわしい行いを仏陀が説く経。

A discourse in which the Buddha counsels the disagreeable monk Dhammika, expelled by lay supporters for insulting visiting monks, on the conduct proper to a recluse, illustrated with tales of teachers from the past.

『経集』クッラ品の第十四経で、在家弟子ダンミカの問いに答え、仏陀が比丘と在家者にふさわしい行いを説く。

The fourteenth discourse of the Cūḷa chapter of the Suttanipāta, in which the Buddha, questioned by the lay disciple Dhammika, lays out the conduct proper to monks and to householders.