The Nandisutram belongs to that category of texts which fall under the group of the Culika-sutras. Under the term Culika one understands those works which deal with, and describe in extensor those aspects or sections of the Jain canons which could not be treated comprehensively in the main canonical literature and are either referred to en passant or treated only in a deficient manner. Culika-sutras thus form a kind of