Sāriputta and Moggallāna come to Gayāsīsa; Devadatta, thinking the two have come to join him, asks Sāriputta to teach and lies down to rest. Sāriputta instructs the monks with his power of knowing the minds of others, and Moggallāna with his ; they attain the and follow the two back to the Bamboo Grove. Kokālika wakes Devadatta, who vomits hot blood. This event is recorded by four schools.
Different Accounts
Place: the Pali Vinaya and the Chinese Dharmaguptaka Vinaya have Gayāsīsa; the Saṅghabhedavastu of the Chinese Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya has “the Southern Hill”; the Chinese Sarvāstivāda Vinaya has Devadatta's assembly hall.
More differences between accounts (1)
The two passages, the monks attaining the first fruit and Devadatta vomiting blood, have so far been found only in the Pali Vinaya.
Dating
Around Year 38 after the Awakening, the Buddha aged about seventy-two, after the split of the Sangha; the possible range is Years 38 to 45 after the Awakening, and it must fall before the deaths of Sāriputta and Moggallāna. The season is unknown; inferred from the sequence of events, the year is not certain.
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Research Notes: Reliability, Dating and Sources
- How Reliability Is Assessed
Recorded by four schools: the Pali canon of the Southern tradition, the Chinese Dharmaguptaka Vinaya (Sifen lü), the Chinese Mahīśāsaka Vinaya (Wufen lü) and the Chinese Sarvāstivāda Vinaya (Shisong lü). Attested across multiple schools.
- Dating Evidence and Precision
Inferred from the sequence of events (neither the canonical texts nor the commentaries give the time; the year is worked out from the order of this event and those around it); converted from the Buddha's age (reckoned from the Buddha's age). Time precision: year uncertain.