(lit. 'message'): the Dispensation of the Buddha, the Buddhist religion; teaching, doctrine.

Navanga-Buddha (or satthu)-sāsana, the nine-fold Dispensation of the Buddha (or the Master) consists of

• suttas (sutta),
• mixed prose (geyya),
• exegesis (veyyākarana),
• verses (gāthā),
• solemn utterances (udāna),
• sayings of the Blessed One (itivuttaka),
• birth stories (jātaka),
• extraordinary things (abbhutadhamma), and
• analysis (vedalla).

This classification is often found in the suttas (e.g. M.22).

According to the commentaries, also the Vinaya and the Abhidhamma Pitaka are comprised in that nine-fold division (see Atthasālini Tr., I, 33).

It is a classification according to literary styles, and not according to given texts or books.