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Reciters of the Dīgha-Nikāya.
They
separated the Cariyāpitaka, Apadāna and
Buddhavamsa from the
Khuddakanikāya and
ascribed the remaining twelve divisions of that Nikāya to the
Abhidhamma Pitaka
(DA.i.15).
They also held that the four omens which the Bodhisatta saw, prior to
his Renunciation, were seen on one and the same day (J.i.59).
It is said that
once, when the Dīghabhānakas recited the Brahmajāla Sutta at the Ambalatthikā,
to the east of the Lohapāsāda, the earth shook. DA.i.131; for views expressed by
them see Sp.ii.413; DhSA.159, etc.

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