Summary: The Itivuttaka ("Thus It Was Said") is the fourth book of the khuddaka nikaya. In the local corpus it is currently available as a raw BJT Pali/Sinhala source reader, preserving the native tipitaka.lk page-entry segmentation rather than a fully edited wiki text rendering.
Overview
The Itivuttaka is a collection of short discourses introduced by the formula "this was said by the Blessed One." The BJT source presents the collection as four nipātas, moving from one-item teachings through progressively larger grouped teachings. Many entries combine a prose statement with verses that restate or extend the same point.
This page is an overview page only. The raw BJT Pali source and Sinhala translation have been ingested and reviewed, but a full text-page presentation with per-sutta headings, normalized numbering, cross-references, and supporting pages is deferred.
Source reader
The current raw reader uses BJT page-entry identifiers such as kn-iti:318.6. The BJT Pali and Sinhala native entry counts do not align perfectly in this extract, so the parallel reader uses a union of segment identifiers and displays explicit missing-edition placeholders where one side has no matching row.
Structure
At this overview stage the local wiki treats the Itivuttaka as a single Khuddaka source unit. The raw source opens with the Ekakanipāta and its first vagga, including short suttas such as the Lobha, Dosa, and Moha suttas. Later sections continue the same compact prose-and-verse pattern through the remaining nipātas.
Later batches should split this overview into reviewed per-sutta pages or anchors only after the numbering, headings, and citation conventions have been normalized against the raw source.
Textual status
This page is backed by the reviewed raw-only Tipitaka.lk Stage 1 ingest for Itivuttaka. The batch extracted 1102 BJT Pali rows and 1095 BJT Sinhala rows from pathnirvana/tipitaka.lk; the independent raw-ingest review found no extraction defects and explicitly accepted the seven-row Pali/Sinhala mismatch as a source-alignment fact. Sinhala republication status remains pending verification, so the Sinhala text is exposed locally through the reader but is not treated here as a public republication-ready translation.