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Majjhima Nikāya

It consists of eighty portions for recitation (bhāṇavāra) and is divided into three sections of fifty suttas (paṇṇāsa), the last paṇṇāsa containing fifty-two suttas.

At the First Council the duty of learning the Majjhima Nikāya and of handing it down intact was entrusted to the “school” of Sāriputta (DA.i.15).

Buddhaghosa wrote a Commentary to the Majjhima Nikāya, which is called the Papañcasūdaṇī, and Sāriputta of Sri Lanka wrote its Subcommentary (ṭīkā).

The Majjhima Nikāya was also called the Majjhima Saṅgīti (e.g., MA.i.2; MT.193, 305).

When the Buddha’s dispensation (sāsana) disappears, the Majjhima predeceases the Digha Nikāya. MA.ii.881.

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names • G.P. Malalasekera