List of items according to years of age
[1]. 5
[2]. 7
[3]. 8
[4]. 9
[5]. 10
[6]. 12
[7]. 13
[8]. 14
[9]. 15
[10]. 16
[11]. 17
[12]. 18
[13]. 19
[14]. 20
[15]. 24
[16]. 25
[17]. 29
[18]. 30
[19]. 31
[20]. 35
[21]. 36
[22]. 40
[23]. 50
[24]. 70
[25]. 79
[26]. 80
[27]. 90
[28]. 100
[29]. 120
[30]. 126
[31]. 160
[32]. dāraka (childhood)
[33]. kumāra, kumārikā (boy, girl)
[34]. viññūtā (age of discretion)
[35]. māṇava(ka), māṇavikā), (young Brahman, male and female)
[36]. dahara (young)
[37]. paṭhama-vaya (period of youth)
[38]. taruṇa (infancy)
[39]. jiṇṇo vuddho mahallako addhagato vayo anuppatto (old age, weakness and old age, advancing years)
[40]. buḍḍha, vuḍḍha (old)
[41]. boy, girl, childhood
[42]. infancy, infant
[43]. great age
[44]. young boy, young girl
[45]. juvenile
[46]. youth
[47]. coming into existence
[48]. time
[49]. prime of life
[50]. old age
[51]. weaken
List of items according to category
[1]. school days
[2]. studying away from home
[3]. completion of studies
[4]. employment
[5]. marriage
[6]. prime of life
[7]. concerning coronation
[8]. leaving home (renunciation)
[9]. retirement
[10]. novice (sāmaṇera, sāmaṇerī)
[11]. novice between ages of 18 and 20 who accepts six precepts (sikkhamana)
[12]. bhikkhu, bhikkhuni
[13]. a certain enlightenment
[14]. stream-enterer (sotāpanna)
[15]. once-returner (sakadagamin)
[16]. non-returner (anāgāmi)
[17]. arahant
[18] .maturity
[19]. death
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schooldays, marriage, retirement, death, life stage, standard age, average age, early, Buddhist scriptural sources |
Whereas Source material 1-1 was confined to the Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā, this surveys theearly scriptures in general. The Jātaka-aṭṭhakathā shows considerable patterning and so it was afairly straightforward task to put the information together. However, this has been more difficult todo for the early scriptures en masse.
By "early scriptures", we refer to the Pali Nikāyas and Vinaya and to the Chinese gamas. Fordetails of these, refer to the list of sources cited in Article 1. However, because the narrative sectionin the Mūla-Sarvāstivādin Vinaya concerning how things in the present came to be is largely anarrative of past events, it does not form part of our consideration here.
This source material is made up of three parts. The first two parts are the same as the previoussection, 1-1: a list of items according to years of age, and a list of items according to category. Inaddition there is a list of items for reference. Since becoming an arhat has nothing to do with age, ithas no meaning as an indicator of a life stage. However, we have included it as a category, thinkingthat it may be of some use as a term of reference. This section shows both biological age andseniority within the Samgha. There are also materials here concerning the human lifespan being onehundred years.