The Āṭānāṭīya- and the Āṭānāṭikasūtra – Sūtra for Protecting Monks and Nuns in Wilderness: The Sanskrit Text in the Dīrghāgama Manuscript from Gilgit and a Re-edition from Fragments Found on the Northern Silk Route

The Āṭānāṭīyasūtra is part of the only Sanskrit manuscript known so far containing the complete Dīrghāgama, however fragmentary in parts. The Āṭānāṭīya is sūtra 237 in the sequence of sūtras. It belongs to the Yuganipāta, the "Twin Section", consisting of pairs of sūtras. Unlike the nearly complete Sanskrit text preserved from the Āṭānāṭīyasūtra from Gilgit only remnants of this sūtra have been found at several sacred places along the northern trade route round the Taklamakan desert.