GENERAL INTRODUCTION xxi INTRODUCTORY NOTES xxxvi LIFE OF THE BUDDHA TAKEN FROM THE Pāli TEXTS Part I THE BUDDHA AND THE DHAMMA Chapter I. Kapilavatthu: Birth, Youth, and Early Doubts 3 Chapter 2. Kapilavatthu : the Great Retirement 13 Chapter 3. Rājagaha and Uruvelā: striving towards the Light 18 Chapter 4. Uruvelā : the Great Enlightenment 25 Chapter 5. Uruvelā and Isipatana: the Starting of the Wheel 36 Chapter 6. Benāres: the First Sixty Followers 55 Chapter 7. Return to Magadha: the Great Converts; Kapilavatthu revisited 66 Part II THE BUDDHA AND THE SAMGHA Chapter 8. { A ) Rājagaha : the Samgha developed; Organization 89 Chapter 9. Rājagaha: the Law developed; the Duties of Laymen ; Jains and Titthiyas 130 Chapter 10. Rājagaha and Sāvatthi : the Two Centres ; Sakyan Converts ; the Chief Disciples ; the Great Tours 147 Chapter 11. Among the Magadhas and Angas; and Eastward 168 Chapter 12. The Vajjian Confederacy; the City of Vesāli 199 Chapter 13. The Sakkans and their Neighbours 231 Chapter 14. The Kosalan Kingdom 263 Chapter 15. The Lands of the Kāsis and Vacchas; Benāres; Dissensions in Kosambi 296 Chapter 16. Western Clans of the Middle-Land; Localities and Districts Unidentified 321 Chapter 17. Beyond the Jamna: a Supplementary Chapter. Regions to the West, South-West, and North-West of the River Jamna 339 Part III SAVATTHI AND THE LAST JOURNEY Chapter 18. Gotama’s Continuous Ministry in Savatthi 351 Chapter 19. Last Visit to Rājagaha: the Schism of Devadatta; Ajātasattu, King of Magadha 373 Chapter 20. The Last Tour: through the Magadhan Country 387 Chapter 21. The Last Tour: through the Vajjian Country; Vesāli 394 Chapter 22. The Last Tour: in the Mallan Country 407 Chapter 23. Epilogue: the Calling of the First Great Council 431 APPENDIXES List of Passages from Pāli Books translated and included in the Present Work 632 Index I. Annotated Pāli Words 638 Index 2. Proper Names, Titles, and Modes of Address 665
