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| | Majjhima Nikaya |
 | | The suttas in this Nikaya throw much light on the social ideas and institutions of those days, and also provide general information on the economic and political life. |
| | The Buddha explained the basis of all phenomena, specifying twenty four categories such as the four elements (earth, water, fire, wind); sentient beings, devas; the seen, the heard, the thought of, the known; the oneness, the multiplicity, the whole; and the reality of Nibbana. |
| | In this discourse, given at Savatthi, the Buddha made the bold statement that the four Categories of Ariyas, namely, the Stream-winner, the Once-returner, the Non-returner and the Arahat exist only in his Teaching and not in any other. |
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