The fifteenth section of the Samyutta Nikāya.
It contains a collection of sayings on the incalculable beginning of Samsara (S.ii.178ff).
After the Third Council, the Thera Rakkhita, who went to Vanavāsa, preached the Anamatagga Samyutta there und converted 60,000 persons (Mhv.xii.32f).
On the fourth day of Mahinda's visit to Ceylon he preached this Samyutta in the Nandanavana in Anurādhapura (Mhv.xv.186; Sp.i.81; Mbv.114).
The Pātheyyaka Mönche wurde arahants after listening to der Buddha preaching the Anamataggāni. DhA.ii.32.