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Sanghabhedavastu [sanskrit]

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Summary: The Sanskrit edition of the Sanghabhedavastu: The 17th and last section of the Vinaya of the Mulasarvastivadin. The text includes descriptions of the life of the Buddha

Original titles: Saṅghabhedavastu (सङ्घभेदवस्तु), Saṃghabhedavastu (संघभेदवस्तु, Samghabhedavastu)

Source: gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de

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The full text of the Sanghabhedavastu [sanskrit] is available here and publically accesible (free to read online). Of course, I would always recommend buying the book so you get the latest edition. You can see all this book’s content by visiting the pages in the below index:

Chapter 1 - Lineage of kings
Chapter 2 - Bhikṣus desire to know
Chapter 3 - The Buddha asks Maudgalyāyana to narrate
Chapter 4 - Maudgalyāyana narrates.
Chapter 5 - The tasting of the pṛthivīrasa
Chapter 6 - The appearance of the pṛthivīparpaṭake, etc.
Chapter 7 - The establishing of lines of demarcation, boundaries, etc.,
Chapter 8 - Lineage of kings
Chapter 9 - Story of Gautama, the progenitor of Ikṣvāku
Chapter 10 - The story of Virūḍhaka
Chapter 11 - The cities of Kapilavastu and Devadṛśa
Chapter 12 - Successors to Virūḍhaka
Chapter 13 - Buddha's remarks
Chapter 14 - Siṃhahanu's reign
Chapter 15 - Śuddhodana succeeds Siṃhahanu and the descent of the Buddha
Chapter 16 - Descent from the Tuṣitas
Chapter 17 - Conception; auspicious signs in the dream
Chapter 18 - The Buddha in mother's womb
Chapter 19 - Pains of childbirth
Chapter 20 - The birth of the Buddha and the accompanying wonders
Chapter 21 - Asita, Nālada and the yakṣa Śākyavardhana
Chapter 22 - Names of the bodhisatva
Chapter 23 - Predictions of the naimittikas
Chapter 24 - Lakṣaṇas of a mahāpuruṣa
Chapter 25 - Beauty and other qualities of the bodhisatva
Chapter 26 - The arrival of Asita and Nālada
Chapter 27 - Asita's departure
Chapter 28 - Siddhārtha, the Nāgasahasrabala
Chapter 29 - Siddhārtha's performances
Chapter 30 - Śuddhodana's efforts
Chapter 31 - Yaśodharā
Chapter 32 - The Sārakalyāṇi-tree, the goose and Devadatta's first quarrel
Chapter 33 - Meeting with Gopikā
Chapter 34 - Sight of am old man
Chapter 35 - Śuddhodanas' anxiety
Chapter 36 - Sight of a sick man
Chapter 37 - Sight of a deceased-man
Chapter 38 - Sight of a mendicant
Chapter 39 - Visit to a farming village
Chapter 40 - The shadow of the rose-apple tree
Chapter 41 - Meeting with Mṛgajā
Chapter 42 - Precautions of Śuddhodana
Chapter 43 - Disgusting sight in harem
Chapter 44 - Dreams of Mahāprajāpati, Yaśodharā and Siddhārtha
Chapter 45 - Siddhārtha's renunciation
Chapter 46 - Return of Kanthaka and Chandaka
Chapter 47 - The taking of the Yellow Robes
Chapter 48 - The sage Bhārgava
Chapter 49 - Arrival at Rājagṛha and Bimbisāra's meeting
Chapter 50 - Hermitage of the sages
Chapter 51 - Ārāḍa Kālāma
Chapter 52 - Udraka Rāmaputra
Chapter 53 - The river Nairañjanā
Chapter 54 - Self-tortures and fastings
Chapter 55 - Offer of the devatās
Chapter 56 - New Strivings
Chapter 57 - The three similes
Chapter 58 - Reaction of Śuddhodana and others
Chapter 59 - Unpalatable food
Chapter 60 - Village girls and boys
Chapter 61 - The five attendants desert
Chapter 62 - Nandā and Nandabalā
Chapter 63 - Kālika Nāgarāja
Chapter 64 - Svastika and Buddha's determination
Chapter 65 - Māra's mischief
Chapter 66 - Experiences of suernatural powers
Chapter 67 - Reasoning within, and enlightenment
Chapter 68 - Māra's defeat, and mischievous rumour
Chapter 69 - Rāhula and Ānanda
Chapter 70 - Two Devatas
Chapter 71 - Trapuṣa and Bhallika
Chapter 72 - The Buddha's ailment, and Māra's mischief again
Chapter 73 - Harītakī brought by Śakra
Chapter 74 - Mucilinda Nāgarāja
Chapter 75 - Cognizance of pratītyasamutpāda
Chapter 76 - Brahma's request for Dharmadeśanā
Chapter 77 - Death of Ārāḍa Kālāma
Chapter 78 - Death of Udraka Rāmaputra
Chapter 79 - Buddha starts of Vārāṇasī
Chapter 80 - Upagu Ājīvika
Chapter 81 - The five Bhikṣus
Chapter 82 - The middle course of conduct
Chapter 83 - The four Noble Truths
Chapter 84 - The name of Ājñātakauṇḍinya
Chapter 85 - Proclamation of Dharmacakra
Chapter 86 - The Budda explains the four Noble Truths
Chapter 87 - The conversin of Yaśas, son of Agrakulika
Chapter 88 - Yaśas's father becomes a lay-disciple and Yaśas an Arhat
Chapter 89 - Yaśa's mother and wife become lay-disciples
Chapter 90 - Previous birth of Yaśas
Chapter 91 - Yaśas's four brothers are converted and become Arhats
Chapter 92 - The conversion of fifty young men
Chapter 93 - The Buddha goes to the village Urubilvā
Chapter 94 - Sixty Gentlemen become lay-disciples
Chapter 95 - Conversion of the brahmin Deva
Chapter 96 - Conversion of Nandā and Nandabalā
Chapter 97 - Biṃbisāra's visit to the Buddha
Chapter 98 - Urubilvākāśyapa and the Buddha confront
Chapter 99 - The twin miracle of Urubilvākāśyapa
Chapter 100 - The sermon of the Buddha on the production and passing away by dependence
Chapter 101 - The sermon of the Buddha on the unreality of the Self
Chapter 102 - The conversion of Bimbisāra
Chapter 103 - The story of the king Kṛki
Chapter 104 - The story of the three sons of a Gṛhapati
Chapter 105 - The story of Kalandakanivāpa
Chapter 106 - Bimbisāra presents Veṇuvana to the Buddha
Chapter 107 - Anāthapiṇḍada meets the Buddha
Chapter 108 - Anāthapiṇḍada invites the Buddha to Śrāvastī
Chapter 109 - Śāriputra leaves for Śrāvastī
Chapter 110 - Obstruction by the Tīrthyas
Chapter 111 - The Tīrthyas and Śāriputra contest
Chapter 112 - Defeat of the Tīrthyas
Chapter 113 - Conversion of the Tīrthyas
Chapter 114 - Construction of Vihāras
Chapter 115 - Messenger to the Buddha
Chapter 116 - The Buddha arrives at Śrāvastī
Chapter 117 - Effects felt following Buddha's arrival
Chapter 118 - The Jetavana
Chapter 119 - King Prasenajit meets the Buddha
Chapter 120 - The four small ones
Chapter 121 - Udāyin brings messages from Śuddhodana and his own conversion
Chapter 122 - Udāyin made a monk
Chapter 123 - Instructions to Udāyin
Chapter 124 - Udāyin returns
Chapter 125 - The Buddha leaves for Kapilavastu
Chapter 126 - Magical exploits
Chapter 127 - Śuddhodana's questions and Buddha's replies
Chapter 128 - Conversion of the Śākyas
Chapter 129 - The pride of Śuddhodana
Chapter 130 - The Buddha teaches to the Gods
Chapter 131 - The Buddha teaches to Śuddhodana
Chapter 132 - Dedication of Nyagrodhārāma
Chapter 133 - The Śākyas follow the Buddha
Chapter 134 - Aniruddha and Mahānāman
Chapter 135 - Devadatta entrapped
Chapter 136 - Ordination of five hundred Śākyas
Chapter 137 - Upālin, the barber
Chapter 138 - Upālin ordained
Chapter 139 - Sundara, the student, and Bhadrā, the harlot
Chapter 140 - Gaṅgāpāla, the barber
Chapter 141 - Appendix II
Chapter 142 - Conversion of Nandā and Nandabalā
Chapter 143 - Marvellous deeds of the Buddha before Urubilvā Kāśyapa
Chapter 144 - b) The Buddha hinders the lighting of the fires of Kāśyapa's students
Chapter 145 - c) The Buddha hinders the extinction of the fire of Kāśyapa's students
Chapter 146 - d) The Buddha hinders the lighting of Kāśyapas's fire
Chapter 147 - e) The Buddha hinders the extinction of Kāśyapa's fire
Chapter 148 - f) The Buddha sets fire to the fire-house of Kāśyapa
Chapter 149 - g) the four heavenly kings visit the Buddha
Chapter 150 - h) Śakra visits the Buddha
Chapter 151 - h) Brahma visits the Buddha
Chapter 152 - j) The Buddha reads Kāśyapa's thoughts
Chapter 153 - k) The Buddha procures fruits of jambu etc.
Chapter 154 - o) Śakra supplies the Buddha with water
Chapter 155 - p) An arjuna-tree inclines the branch
Chapter 156 - q) Śakra makes the washing of clothes possible
Chapter 157 - r) Buddha's command on the element water
Chapter 158 - Conversion of Urubilvākāśyapa and of his five hundred students
Chapter 159 - Conversion of Nadī- and Gayākāśyapa
Chapter 160 - The sermon at Gayāśīrṣa
Chapter 161 - The first anouncement of the birth of a great Man
Chapter 162 - The Buddha in Magadha. The invitation of Bimbisāra
Chapter 163 - The visit of Biṃbisāra. Urubilvākāśyapa and the Buddha
Chapter 164 - Story of Kauṇḍinya
Chapter 165 - Story of Kāśisundaraka (Kṣāntivādin)
Chapter 166 - The story of the two merchants
Chapter 167 - The story of the thirsty caravan
Chapter 168 - The story of the merchant Dhanaratha
Chapter 169 - The story of Saṃdhāna, the householder
Chapter 170 - The story of the tortoise
Chapter 171 - The story of the king Vajrabāhu
Chapter 172 - The story of Maitrabala
Chapter 173 - The story of Nandapāla the Potter
Chapter 174 - Yaśodharā brings forth a son
Chapter 175 - The story of the great thief
Chapter 176 - Yaśodharā seeks to bring the Buddha back to her
Chapter 177 - The story of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga
Chapter 178 - Yaśodharā attempts to commit suicide
Chapter 179 - The story of the Kinnara and the Kinnarī
Chapter 180 - Conversion of Yaśodharā
Chapter 181 - The story of the two Ābhīrīs
Chapter 182 - Story of Śaṅkha and Likhita
Chapter 183 - Story of the beggar (concerning a previous birth of King Bhadrika)
Chapter 184 - The story of Madhuvāsiṣṭha
Chapter 185 - The story of the royal barber
Chapter 186 - Another story of a barber
Chapter 187 - Upāli is the foremost among those who master and know the Vinaya
Chapter 188 - Untrue announcement of the death of the Buddha and the birth of Ānanda
Chapter 189 - Ānanda's conversion
Chapter 190 - The story of the king Kirātas
Chapter 191 - Ānanda follows the Buddha and makes an exhibition of mathematical knowledge
Chapter 192 - The story of the astronomer
Chapter 193 - The story of the rice, the two patridges and the sugar-cane
Chapter 194 - The story of the physician
Chapter 195 - The Buddha chooses Ānanda as servant
Chapter 196 - The story of Bhānumān and Bhānumantaḥ
Chapter 197 - Ānanda is the foremost among the learned monks
Chapter 198 - Famine in Rājagṛha
Chapter 199 - Devadatta strives to win magical power
Chapter 200 - Daśabalakāśyapa teaches to Devadatta the way to obtain magical power
Chapter 201 - Devadatta seduces Prince Ajātaśatru
Chapter 202 - The gifts and honours of Ajātaśatru infatuate Devadatta
Chapter 203 - Maudgalyāyana informs the Buddha
Chapter 204 - Devadatta visits the Buddha and departs indignant
Chapter 205 - The Buddha assembles the monks
Chapter 206 - Devadatta decides to bring about schism in the congregation
Chapter 207 - The behaviour of Devadatta is discussed in the congregation
Chapter 208 - The behaviour of the four monks followers of Devadatta is discused in the congregation
Chapter 209 - The monks inform the Buddha of the result of the motion (jñapti).
Chapter 210 - Devadatta loses his magical powers
Chapter 211 - The story of an out-caste versed in magic and of a brāhmaṇa student
Chapter 212 - The Buddha goes to Gayā
Chapter 213 - The story of a mango tree
Chapter 214 - The Buddha in Rājagṛha
Chapter 215 - The Buddho grows ill
Chapter 216 - The story of a gṛhapati and his son
Chapter 217 - The sichness of the Buddha. The Buddha heals Devadatta
Chapter 218 - The story of a Sage and of an ungrateful elephant
Chapter 219 - The story of Mahendrasena
Chapter 220 - The story of a lord of monkeys and of a maker of garlands
Chapter 221 - The story of a lord of a dārukoṭaka bird and a lion
Chapter 222 - The story of a lord of a bear and a poor man
Chapter 223 - Another story of a bear of a poor man
Chapter 224 - The story of the king Śibi
Chapter 225 - The story of Kalyāṇakārin
Chapter 226 - The story of Viśākha
Chapter 227 - The story of Viśvantara
Chapter 228 - The story of Śroṇakoṭīviṃśā
Chapter 229 - Ajātaśatru, impelled by Devadatta, seeks to take his father King Bimbisāra's life
Chapter 230 - The Buddha, desiring to convert Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa, sends Maudgalyāyana to him
Chapter 231 - Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa fills his bowl with food of extraordinary fragrance
Chapter 232 - King Bimbisāra desires to see Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
Chapter 233 - Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa goes to Rājagṛha to visit Bimbisāra
Chapter 234 - Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa and King Bimbisāra go together to the Bamboo grove in order to see the Buddha
Chapter 235 - The Buddha converts Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
Chapter 236 - Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa gives himself to severe penances. The example of the lute
Chapter 237 - Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa follows the advice of the Buddha, and in a short time becomes an arhat
Chapter 238 - The discourse of Śroṇakoṭīviṃśa
Chapter 239 - The story of Vipaśyin
Chapter 240 - Rājagṛha's people begins to murmur against Ajātaśatru and Devadatta
Chapter 241 - The story of Kūla and Upakūla
Chapter 242 - The story of a hunter and an ungrateful man
Chapter 243 - The story of Nanda, the Mungoose
Chapter 244 - King Bimbisāra makes exceeding grants to Ajātaśatru
Chapter 245 - Ajātaśatru casts his father in prison, there to die of hunger
Chapter 246 - The Buddha sends Maudgalyāyana to visit and comfort the old king
Chapter 247 - The tardy repentance of Ajātaśatru and the death of Bimbisāra
Chapter 248 - The story of a potter
Chapter 249 - The distress of Ajātaśatru at the death of King Bimbisāra
Chapter 250 - Devadatta has himself gilt by gold
Chapter 251 - The story of a crow and a golden cap (suvarṇakholā)
Chapter 252 - Devadatta has in his feet the sign of the wheel imprinted with red hot iron
Chapter 253 - The jackal measuring the step of an elephant with its own
Chapter 254 - Devadatta calls a skilled master-mechanic and makes him construct a catapult
Chapter 255 - The workmen refuse to kill the Buddha, go away, sit down at his feet, and are convertef by him
Chapter 256 - Devadatta perceives that the workmen and the mechanic too ran away
Chapter 257 - The yakṣa Kumbhīra sacrifices his life in trying to arrest the stone
Chapter 258 - The story of a hunter
Chapter 259 - Jīvaka prescribes a very rare substance called gośīrṣacandana
Chapter 260 - The hemorrhage does not stop, and Jīvaka prescribes the milk of a young woman
Chapter 261 - Daśabalakāśyapa stops the hemorrhage
Chapter 262 - The story of Dharmakāma
Chapter 263 - The disappointment of Devadatta
Chapter 264 - The story of a jackal and a crow
Chapter 265 - The story of the two birds Dharma and Adharma
Chapter 266 - The story of Sūryanemi the poet
Chapter 267 - The story of the two jewellers
Chapter 268 - The story of the elder son of a gṛhapati
Chapter 269 - The story of a girl and an astrologer
Chapter 270 - The very ferocious elephant of Ājātaśatru, Dhanapālaka by name
Chapter 271 - Devadatta's attempt to kill the Buddha by means of the elephant Dhanapālaka
Chapter 272 - The elephant Dhanapālaka follows submissively the Buddha
Chapter 273 - Dhanapālaka in a previous birth
Chapter 274 - The story of the king Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and his faithful captain Pūrṇamukha, etc.
Chapter 275 - The story of Karadaṇḍī, the Sahasrayodha
Chapter 276 - The story of a lion and his jackal-friend
Chapter 277 - The story of a Mṛgī and Mṛgādhipati
Chapter 278 - The story of a jackal competing with an elephant
Chapter 279 - The story of Āgneya, the cat
Chapter 280 - The story of a bull that got entangled other bulls into trouble by bad counsels
Chapter 281 - The story of the leader of the monkeys
Chapter 282 - The five causes of the division of the congregation
Chapter 283 - Solicitudes of the Buddha
Chapter 284 - Famine in Rājagṛha, division of the congregation and new rules imparted by Devadatta
Chapter 285 - Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana visit the Buddha and promise to him to restore the congregation
Chapter 286 - The sermon on the four merituous men
Chapter 287 - Śāriputra and Mahāmaudgalyāyana visit Devadatta
Chapter 288 - Many misled monks are led back to the Buddha and readmitted into the order
Chapter 289 - The story of a ṛṣi living in the country
Chapter 290 - The story of a jackal, Śatadru by name
Chapter 291 - devadatta gets angry with Kokālika and Khaṇḍadravya
Chapter 292 - The story of the elephant
Chapter 293 - The story of a leader of the thieves
Chapter 294 - The fruit of monachal life in the visible world Ajātaśatru visits the Buddha
Chapter 295 - Ajātaśatru asks the Buddha if it is possible to show any visible benefit to be derived from asceticism
Chapter 296 - Ajātaśatru narrates how he propounded this same question to Pūraṇa Kāśyapa, etc.
Chapter 297 - Maskarī Gośāliputra' theory
Chapter 298 - Sañjayī Vairaṭṭīputra's theory
Chapter 299 - Ajita Keśakambala's theory
Chapter 300 - Nirgrantha Jñātiputra's theory
Chapter 301 - Kakuda Kātyāyana's theory
Chapter 302 - Ajātaśatru propounds the question to the Buddha
Chapter 303 - Buddha's reply
Chapter 304 - King Ajātaśatru, repented of the murdering of his father is finally gained over to the Buddha creed
Chapter 305 - The Buddha, invited by King Ajātaśatru, regrets for the sin commited by his royal guest
Chapter 306 - Buddha converses with Ajātaśatru, who grows more and more attached to him
Chapter 307 - Devadatta, no more admitted into the palace, strucks the bhikṣuṇī Utpalavarṇā, who shortly after dies
Chapter 308 - The story of the old sheep
Chapter 309 - Devadatta is gained over the nihilistic doctrine of Pūraṇa Kāśyapa
Chapter 310 - The Buddha blames Devadatta
Chapter 311 - The new rules of Devadatta
Chapter 312 - Devadatta is thrown into a pond
Chapter 313 - Devadatta fails in his attempts to become King of the Śākyas
Chapter 314 - The Buddha foretells that, on the expiration of a kalpa
Chapter 315 - Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana descend to hell to visit and comfort Devadatta
Chapter 316 - Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana visit in hell followers of Devadatta, Kokālika, etc., and Pūraṇa Kāśyapa
Chapter 317 - The story of the bull and the ass
Chapter 318 - The story of the bull and the jackal
Chapter 319 - The story of the King Caitika and the two sons of the Purohita
Chapter 320 - The story of the master-mechanic and his pupil
Chapter 321 - The question of Upāli

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