Summary: The Mahāniddesa ("Great Exposition") is the eleventh book of the khuddaka nikaya in editions that list the two Niddesa texts separately, and the first of the two Niddesa commentaries on the Sutta Nipāta. 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 local source manifest records Mahāniddesa as a Khuddaka Nikāya source with canonical refs KN 11 and Mnd. This overview does not yet normalize the internal divisions or summarize the work's exegetical contents; that belongs in a later reviewed text-rendering batch.
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 normalized chaptering, per-section headings, cross-references, and supporting pages is deferred.
Source reader
The current raw reader uses BJT page-entry identifiers. 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 Mahāniddesa as a single Khuddaka source unit. The BJT raw source preserves the native page-entry divisions. Later batches should only split this overview into reviewed subunits after headings, internal divisions, and citation conventions have been normalized against the source.
Textual status
This page is backed by the reviewed raw-only Tipitaka.lk Stage 1 ingest for Mahāniddesa. The batch extracted 2297 BJT Pali rows and 2295 BJT Sinhala rows from pathnirvana/tipitaka.lk; the row-count mismatch is recorded as a source-alignment fact, not normalized away. 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.