ボーガナガラで説かれた経典で、仏陀の言葉であると主張される教えを、律と法に照らして受け入れるか退けるか判断する前に検証すべき四つの大権威を仏陀が説く。

A discourse given at Bhoganagara in which the Buddha teaches the four great authorities against which any teaching claimed to be the Buddha’s word should be checked — comparing it with the Vinaya and Dhamma before accepting or rejecting it.