I List of items according to years of age
[1]. 1
[2]. 3
[3]. 4
[4]. 5
[5]. 6
[6]. 7
[7]. 8
[8]. 9
[9]. 10
[10]. 11
[11]. 12
[12]. 13
[13]. 14
[14]. 15
[15]. 16
[16]. 17
[17]. 19
[18]. 20
[19]. 24
[20]. 29
[21]. 32
[22]. 35
[23]. 40
[24]. 60
[25]. 80
[26]. 90
[27]. 100
[28]. 120
[29]. 160
II List of items according to category
[1]. school days
[2]. completion of studies
[3]. going out from the four gates (four encounters)
[4]. studying away from home
[5]. employment
[6]. military service
[7]. boys, girls
[8]. revenge (upon adulthood)
[9]. manabha
[10]. concerning marriage
[11]. consecration as crown prince
[12]. concerning accession
[13]. renunciation
[14]. retirement
[15]. taking refuge in the Buddha Way
[16]. novice (sāmaṇera, sāmaṇerī)
[17]. bhikkhu, bhikkhuni
[18]. a certain enlightenment
[19]. stage of non-retrogression (non-returner [anāgāmin])
[20]. arahant stage
[21]. old age
[22]. death
III. Reference items
Materials concerning years of age
(1) Receiving suffering in the womb
(2) Prayers for a child
(3) Years of education
(4) Years of ascetic training
(5) Return to Kapilavatthu
(6) Years of rule
Materials concerning life span
Metaphors about age
(1) Like an eight year old child
(2) A twenty-year-old like a child
(3) Like an old woman of a hundred

education, marriage, renunciation, death, life stage, standard age, average age, sutras belonging to the Honnen Section of the Taisho Tripiṭaka, Jātaka


This collection of source materials follows on from Source Materials 1-1 in Monograph1 (A List of References to Years of Age in Early Buddhist Scriptural Sources. Part One: Referencesin the Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā) and Source Materials 1-2 in Monograph 6 (A List of References to Yearsof Age in Early Buddhist Scriptural Sources, Part Two) and follows them in content and form.It has been separated from the above as Source Materials 6 because it deals with material theHonnen section of the Taisho Tripitaka (Volumes 3 and 4). Since this section also contains Jātakaliterature, there is some overlapping with the Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā of Source Materials 1-1. We haveendeavoured to indicate where this happens in a note.