Summary: The Vimānavatthu ("Stories of Heavenly Mansions") is the sixth 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 Vimānavatthu is a verse collection centred on heavenly rebirth stories. Its narratives typically present a deva or celestial being encountered in a splendid mansion and then explain the karmic causes that led to that result. The collection therefore functions as a karmic anthology: generosity, reverence, and other wholesome acts are shown through their fruits in fortunate rebirth.
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-vv: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 Vimānavatthu as a single Khuddaka source unit. The work is presently exposed through the reviewed raw source rather than through normalized story-level pages. Later batches should only split this overview into reviewed subunits after the raw internal divisions, headings, and citation conventions have been checked carefully against the source.
Textual status
This page is backed by the reviewed raw-only Tipitaka.lk Stage 1 ingest for Vimānavatthu. The batch extracted 1239 BJT Pali rows and 1218 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.