The Atanatiyasutra is part of the only Sanskrit manuscript known so far containing the complete Dirghagama, however fragmentary in parts. The Atanatiya is sutra 237 in the sequence of s?tras. It belongs to the Yuganip?ta, the "Twin Section", consisting of pairs of s?tras. Unlike the nearly complete Sanskrit text preserved from the Atanatiyasutra from Gilgit only remnants of this sutra have been found at several sacred places along the northern trade route round the Taklamakan desert.