Suttantanīti

Suttantanīti, “maxims drawn from the discourses” — and the title is the argument. Where the Lokanīti and Dhammanīti group draws its material from the Indian subhāṣita anthologies, this collection takes its verses from the Suttanta.

That claim can be tested rather than repeated, and it holds. Measured for Sanskrit kāvya vocabulary against the rest of this collection, it sits at the low end — which is exactly what a book drawing on Pali sources rather than Sanskrit ones should look like.

The text names no author and no initiator, and that is a fact about the text, not a gap in the searching. A scan of its opening and closing found no ganthārambhakathā, no colophon and no place name anywhere in it, and no source on file names the work. No date can be given.