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The Chapter on Mahāparivāra
1.
The Life History of the Elder Mahāparivāraka
1.
With sixty-eight thousand, entered Bandhuma then.
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I saw the stainless Buddha, the receiver of oblations.
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They attend attentively, as the host of gods attend Indra.
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With my head I saluted, and gave that to the great sage.
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By the Buddha's power, the earth quaked.
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I place confidence in the Buddha, in the Lord of Bipeds, the Such.
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I went to refuge, together with my ministers and retinue.
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I do not know of an unfortunate realm, this is the fruit of honouring the Buddha.
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Accomplished with the seven treasures, wheel-turning monarchs of great power.
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The six higher knowledges have been realised, the Buddha's teaching has been fulfilled."
Thus the Venerable Elder Mahāparivāraka spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Mahāparivāraka is first.
2.
The Life History of the Elder Sumaṅgala
11.
Having gone forth from the dwelling, approached the lake.
12.
The Blessed One stood there, looking in every direction.
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Joyful, with a joyful mind, I clapped my hands then.
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I was engaged in dancing and singing, and in the five-fold music.
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I overcome all beings, vast is my glory.
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Having pleased yourself, you please others, O sage.
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Having attended on the Perfectly Enlightened One, I was reborn in Tusita.
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Accomplished with the seven treasures, wheel-turning monarchs of great power.
19.
Thus the Venerable Elder Sumaṅgala spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Sumaṅgala is second.
3.
The Life History of the Elder Saraṇagamaniya
20.
It was fully engaged, a great roar arose.
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The Teacher, standing in the sky, stirred the great multitude.
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Having paid respect to the Perfectly Enlightened One, they sat fully focused at that very moment.
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The compassionate one, knower of the world, extinguished the great multitude.
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By that corruption of mind, is reborn in a realm of misery.
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Extinguish your own mind, do not be destroyed again and again.
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And they went for refuge to the elder of the world, the beginning of learning.
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Being watched by the gods, he departed facing north.
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For a hundred thousand cosmic cycles, I was not reborn in an unfortunate realm.
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In thirty thousand cosmic cycles, kings, universal monarchs.
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Thus the Venerable Elder Saraṇagamaniya spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Saraṇagamaniya is third.
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The Life History of the Elder Ekāsaniya
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I attended on the Enlightened by himself, with vehicles, forces and mounts.
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Having taken all the musical instruments, I went to the highest enlightenment.
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As if face to face with the Perfectly Enlightened One, I attended upon the highest enlightenment.
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Folding my legs crosswise, there I deceased.
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By that confidence of mind, I was reborn in the Nimmāna realm.
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Among human beings and gods, as I go on from existence to existence.
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I bear my final body in the teaching of the Perfectly Enlightened One.
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Accomplished with the seven jewels, five hundred cosmic cycles from now.
39.
Thus the Venerable Elder Ekāsaniya spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Ekāsaniya is fourth.
5.
The Life History of the Elder Suvaṇṇapupphiya
40.
Seated before the crowd of people, he taught the Deathless state.
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Four golden flowers, upon the Buddha I placed.
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And the Buddha's radiance and the golden radiance, abundant light there was.
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Generating joy for them, bringing happiness in the present life.
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Having generated gladness, I went to my own dwelling.
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By that confidence of mind, I was reborn in Tusita.
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I do not know of an unfortunate realm, this is the fruit of honouring the Buddha.
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Forty-three cosmic cycles ago from now, wheel-turning monarchs of great power.
48.
Thus the Venerable Elder Suvaṇṇapupphiya spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Suvaṇṇapupphiya is fifth.
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The Life History of the Elder Citakapūjaka
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When the Blessed One, Sikhi, the kinsman of the world, attained final Nibbāna.
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Having played musical instruments there, I sprinkled a garland of fragrance.
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With a confident mind, glad at heart, went to my own dwelling.
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By that action, lord of bipeds, eldest of the world, bull among men.
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I have attained the unshakeable state, having abandoned victory and defeat.
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I do not know of an unfortunate realm, this is the fruit of honouring the funeral pyre.
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Uggata by name, wheel-turning monarchs of great power.
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Thus the Venerable Elder Citakapūjaka spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Citakapūjaka is sixth.
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The Life History of the Elder Buddhasaññaka
57.
The earth trembled, the ground with its girdle of water.
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Even the dwelling trembled, at the exhaustion of the Buddha's life.
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For what purpose was this arising, abundant light there was.
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There is no fear for living beings, be fully focused and restrained.
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When he is arising, the earth trembles.
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In the remaining cosmic cycles, wholesome was practised by me.
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I do not know of an unfortunate realm, this is the fruit of perception of the Buddha.
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Samita by name, a wheel-turning monarch of great power.
65.
Thus the Venerable Elder Buddhasaññaka spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Buddhasaññaka is seventh.
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The Life History of the Elder Maggasaññaka
66.
Lost in the great forest, like the blind, they wandered about.
67.
Those sons of that sage, lost in the great forest.
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I pointed out the path to them, and I gave them food.
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Seven years old by birth, I attained arahantship.
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Accomplished with the seven jewels, five hundred cosmic cycles from now.
71.
Thus the Venerable Elder Maggasaññaka spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Maggasaññaka is eighth.
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The Life History of the Elder Paccupaṭṭhānasaññaka
72.
I was reborn in the realm of demons, and I attained fame then.
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That while my wealth was existing, the one with vision attained final Nibbāna.
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Wishing to uplift me, he came to my presence.
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Given by the Buddha, the accomplishment of seed for all.
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One should venerate even a relic the size of a mustard seed of one whose passion is quenched.
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Therefore, having built a monument, venerate the relics of the Conqueror.
78.
For five years I tended the supreme stupa of the sage.
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Having experienced success, I attained arahantship.
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Accomplished with the seven treasures, wheel-turning monarchs of great power.
81.
Thus the Venerable Elder Paccupaṭṭhānasaññaka spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Paccupaṭṭhānasaññaka is ninth.
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The Life History of the Elder Jātipūjaka
82.
And the earth trembled, with its oceans and mountains.
83.
The foremost of all beings, he will lift up the populace.
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There is no such honouring, as a birth-honouring.
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Wholesome deeds, I gladdened my own mind.
Having made an offering at birth, there I deceased.
86.
I overcome all beings, this is the fruit of honouring birth.
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They are unable to make me angry, this is the fruit of honouring birth.
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I do not know of an unfortunate realm, this is the fruit of honouring birth.
89.
In the third cosmic cycle from now, wheel-turning monarchs of great power.
90.
Thus the Venerable Elder Jātipūjaka spoke these verses.
The Life History of the Elder Jātipūjaka is tenth.
The Chapter on the Great Retinue is twelfth.
Its summary:
Citapūjī, Buddhasaññī, with Maggupaṭṭhāna and Jāti;
Ninety verses spoken, counted by the wise.
