《長部》第十四經，透過七佛生平闡述諸佛出世的共通軌則，其中於毗婆尸佛——喬達摩佛之前六佛中最早者——生平著墨最詳。

The fourteenth discourse of the Dīghanikāya, describing the general pattern of a Buddha’s advent through the lives of seven Buddhas, with the life of Vipassī, the first of the six preceding Gotama, treated in the greatest detail.