Dīghabhāṇakā untranslated

Dīghabhāṇakā. Reciters of the Dīghanikāya.

They separated the Cariyāpiṭaka, Apadāna and Buddhavaṁsa from the Khuddakanikāya and ascribed the remaining twelve divisions of that Nikāya to the Abhidhammapiṭaka (DN­a.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 (Ja.i.59).

It is said that once, when the Dīghabhāṇakas recited the Brahmajālasutta at the Ambalaṭṭhikā, to the east of the Lohapāsāda, the earth shook. DN­a.i.131; for views expressed by them see Vin-a.ii.413; Dhs-a.159, etc.