Yes. The “Mahāpadāna Sutta (DN 14)“ provides the lifetimes of humans during the times of previous Buddhas, and those are correct.
- I have seen this issue in several places. Even the Tipitaka Commentaries may not be entirely accurate. Those were composed by Arahants, who are not as knowledgeable as a Buddha. In this case, they used the lifetime known to them. Also, we need to remember that these kinds of details are not connected to wisdom; they are just bits of information.
- Therefore, we must always prioritize the Sutta Pitaka over the other two Pitakas in the Tipitaka.
P.S. We also need to remember that this age limit refers to the lifetime of the physical human body. Human existence may last even for many hundreds of thousands of years, i.e., the lifetime of the “mental body” or “manomaya kaya” or “gandhabba” can be very long. During that time, one can be born with a physical human body numerous times.
Good Lal,
Where does the idea, that “we should remember” come from. Usually death is defined by break apart of the body. Atma wouldn’t say that certain tendencies don’t follow, as there are also many human being with conducts like animals, petas, and also Devas, yet the common used border of end of life doesn’t seem to be else like the body one has taken on.
Or would good Lal say that if one falls into a tendency like a Brahma, yet still human body, that he/she took another existence?
People tend to think that they are human, even think that they (human) then become this or that, something like Disney’s wonders, and so hardly to efforts not to fall down.
It’s wrong view that leads for sure down, causes animal womb, peta, hell.
It’s not a useful idea, such as “i am a human” wandering on, but much better that it’s very, very seldom to gain after death as human, another human existence.
So maybe good Lal likes to investigate that part more deeper, so that it’s nor unfortunately mistaken, and a seldom change gone by feeling to secure in certain relation.
Animal have the tendency to often return, yet even there the main lane is downwardly.
There is a lot of Sakkāyadiṭṭhi potential in this point, and lot of ‘human pride’. Yet in the time now, if looking on how many die even befor leaving womb, of human lifespan isn’t much above 30, if not lesser.
(Samana Johann)