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Mahāpadānasutta (The Great Discourse on the Life Stories)
17D/1, the first discourse of the Dīgha Nikāya's Mahāvaggapāḷi: the Bhagavā recounts the six Buddhas before him and his own lineage, then the life of Vipassī from his birth to the sending out of his disciples. Translated in ten parts.
1. Pubbenivāsapaṭisaṃyuttakathā (The Account Concerning Former Lives)
2At Sāvatthī the bhikkhū talk of former lives, and the Bhagavā recounts the six Buddhas before him and himself, aeon by aeon, then answers how a Tathāgata knows them. The opening of the Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
10. Devatārocana (The Deities' Report)
3At Ukkaṭṭhā the Bhagavā visits the gods of the Pure Abodes, who repeat the seven Buddhas' particulars to him, and the sutta closes. The last part of the Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
2. Bodhisattadhammatā (The Nature of a Bodhisatta)
4The sixteen things that are the nature of a bodhisatta at his conception and birth, told of Vipassī: the radiance, the guardian gods, his mother, the ten months, the standing birth and the newborn's seven strides and lordly words. Translated from the Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), paragraphs 34–49.
3. Dvattiṃsamahāpurisalakkhaṇā (The Thirty-two Marks of a Great Man)
5The brahmin fortune tellers read the thirty-two marks of a great man on the newborn Prince Vipassī and tell King Bandhumā his two courses: a righteous wheel-turning emperor if he stays at home, a perfectly awakened one if he goes forth. Translated from the Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), paragraphs 50–84.
4. Vipassīsamaññā (The Naming of Vipassī)
6King Bandhumā rewards the fortune tellers and provides nurses and three seasonal palaces for the newborn Prince Vipassī, who is named Vipassī for his unblinking gaze and his methodical judgement of cases; the first bhāṇavāra of the Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1) ends. Translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
5. Jiṇṇapurisa to Bodhisattapabbajjā (The Old Man, the Sick Man, the Dead Man, the Renunciant, and the Bodhisatta's Going Forth)
7Driving out to the parkland, Prince Vipassī sees an old man, a sick man, a dead man and a renunciant, learns from his charioteer that he too is liable to old age, sickness and death, and shaves his hair and beard and goes forth; the four sights of the Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1). Translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
6. Mahājanakāyaanupabbajjā and Bodhisattaabhinivesa (The Great Crowd's Going Forth after Him, and the Bodhisatta's Settling into Seclusion)
8Vipassī's going forth draws a great crowd after him; alone in seclusion he works out the origin and cessation of ageing and death link by link, and his mind is liberated. Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), paragraphs 109–138, translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
7. Brahmayācanakathā (The Account of Brahmā's Request)
9Vipassī, newly awakened, inclines not to teach the profound dhamma until a Great Brahmā asks three times and he surveys the world with the Buddha-eye. Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), paragraphs 139–156, translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
8. Aggasāvakayuga to Purimapabbajitānaṃ dhammābhisamaya (The Pair of Chief Disciples, the Great Crowd's Going Forth, and the Earlier Renunciants' Arriving at the Dhamma)
10Vipassī the Bhagavā teaches Khaṇḍa and Tissa, then the eighty-four thousand of Bandhumatī and the eighty-four thousand who had gone forth after him; each company gains the Dhamma Eye, goes forth and is liberated. The Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.
9. Cārikāanujānana (The Permission to Wander)
11Vipassī the Bhagavā sends his bhikkhū out to wander for the welfare of the many, to return every six years for the recitation of the pātimokkha, which he gives in three verses. The Mahāpadānasutta (7D/1), translated from the Dīgha Nikāya.