Summary: The Petavatthu ("Stories of Departed Spirits") is the seventh book of the khuddaka nikaya. In the local corpus it is currently available as a raw BJT Pali/Sinhala source reader, preserving the native tipitaka.lk page-entry segmentation rather than a fully edited wiki text rendering.
Overview
The Petavatthu is a verse collection focused on unhappy rebirth stories, especially the condition of departed spirits (peta). Its narratives commonly present a suffering being whose present state is then traced back to unwholesome action, negligence, or failures of generosity. Read alongside the Vimānavatthu, it forms the darker karmic counterpart: one collection shows fortunate heavenly results, the other painful consequences.
This page is an overview page only. The raw BJT Pali source and Sinhala translation have been ingested and reviewed, but a full text-page presentation with normalized chaptering, per-story headings, cross-references, and supporting pages is deferred.
Source reader
The current raw reader uses BJT page-entry identifiers such as kn-pv:2.5. The BJT Pali and Sinhala native entry counts do not align perfectly in this extract, so the parallel reader uses a union of segment identifiers and displays explicit missing-edition placeholders where one side has no matching row.
Structure
At this overview stage the local wiki treats the Petavatthu as a single Khuddaka source unit. The current presentation preserves the source-reader layer without claiming normalized story numbering or chapter boundaries beyond what the reviewed raw source supports. Later batches should only split this overview into reviewed subunits after headings, internal divisions, and citation conventions have been normalized against the source.
Textual status
This page is backed by the reviewed raw-only Tipitaka.lk Stage 1 ingest for Petavatthu. The batch extracted 948 BJT Pali rows and 1037 BJT Sinhala rows from pathnirvana/tipitaka.lk; the row-count mismatch is recorded as a source-alignment fact, not normalized away. Sinhala republication status remains pending verification, so the Sinhala text is exposed locally through the reader but is not treated here as a public republication-ready translation.