Digha Nikaya - Jaliya Sutta

VII. JÂLIYA SUTTA.
[IS THE SOUL DISTINCT FROM THE BODY?]

[This Sutta having been incorporated, word for word, as §§ 15-19, inclusive,
in the last Sutta, the reader is referred to the translation given there.
The Mahâli Sutta must have already included, when the Dîgha was put together,
this Gâliya episode. For there would otherwise be no reason for the Mahâli Sutta
being put into the Sîlakkhanda Vagga, the Sîlas being contained only in that
episode.
Why then should the episode appear also again, in full, as a separate Sutta?
Is it merely because of the importance of the question? We have another instance
of a similar kind, where the episode of Nigrodha's question, only referred to at
§ 23 of the Kassapa-Sîhanâda Sutta, is set out afterwards, in full, in the
Udumbarîka Sîhanâda Sutta (No. 25 in the Dîgha). But there the whole episode is
not given twice in full. Such cross-references are fairly frequent in the
Pitakas, and are of importance for the history of the literature. One of the
most striking cases is where the Samyutta quotes a Sutta, now contained in the
Dîgha, by name. (Sakka-pañha Sutta, S. III, 13; compare Sum. I, 51; Mil. 350.)]