[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras on buddhas, their lands and names](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha) › [Saptabuddhaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བདུན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo) › [The Seven Buddhas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000) › notes.5 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བདན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.5 The Seven Buddhas notes.5 - **Language:** English ### [notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.5) 5. In Pali, Mahāpadānasutta , Dīgha Nikāya 14. See also Davidson (2015), p. 132. In the same article, pp. 133–42, Davidson also speculates that the reason for the set of seven buddhas having become so widespread might be related to the brahmanical tradition whereby maintaining caste purity over the course of seven generations confers legitimacy on the status of ritual specialist. - [Previous: notes.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.4) - [Next: notes.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.6) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.saptabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.5) · Pramāṇa