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Previous Chapter 6. Chronicle of the Buddha Sumana

7.

Chronicle of the Buddha Revata

1.

After Sumana, the Leader named Revata;

Incomparable, matchless, unequalled, the highest Conqueror.

2.

He too made known the Teaching, being requested by Brahmā;

The defining of the aggregates and elements, the non-occurrence in any kind of existence.

3.

At his full realizations there were three, at the teaching of the Dhamma;

The first full realization was not to be told by counting.

4.

When the sage Revata trained King Arindama;

Then of a thousand koṭis, there was the second full realization.

5.

For seven days from seclusion, having emerged, the lord of men;

A hundred crores of humans and deities, he trained in the highest fruit.

6.

There were three assemblies of the great sage Revata;

Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, well-liberated ones of such quality.

7.

Those who assembled first surpassed the path of counting;

The second meeting was of a hundred thousand koṭis.

8.

He who was matchless in wisdom, a follower of his Wheel;

He was then diseased, having reached danger of life.

9.

Those sages who then came to enquire after his illness;

Ten thousand koṭis of Worthy Ones, the third meeting was.

10.

I at that time, a brahmin named Atideva;

Having approached Revata the Buddha, I went for refuge to him.

11.

Having praised his morality and concentration, and the highest quality of wisdom,

According to my strength, I gave a cloak.

12.

That Buddha too declared of me, Revata, the leader of the world;

"Immeasurable cosmic cycles from now, this one will be a Buddha.

13.

"Having striven in striving, etc. we shall be face to face with him."

14.

Having heard his word too, I gladdened my mind even more;

I determined upon further ascetic practice, for the fulfilment of the ten perfections.

15.

Even then, having remembered that Buddha-teaching, I developed it;

I will bring that teaching, which was longed for by me.

16.

The city was named Sudhaññavatī, the warrior was named Vipula;

The mother was named Vipulā, of the great sage Revata.

17.

For six thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Sudassana, Ratanagghi, and Āveḷa, decorated;

Produced by meritorious deeds, three excellent mansions.

18.

Thirty-three thousand women, fully adorned;

Sudassanā was the name of that woman, Varuṇa was her son.

19.

Having seen the four signs, he departed by chariot vehicle;

For no less than seven months, the Conqueror strove in striving.

20.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Revata, the leader of the world;

The great hero turned the wheel, at Varuṇa's park, in the glorious house.

21.

Varuṇa and Brahmadeva were the chief disciples;

Sambhava by name was the attendant of the great sage Revata.

22.

Bhaddā and Subhaddā were the chief female disciples;

That Buddha too, equal to the matchless, was awakened at the foot of a nāga tree.

23.

Paduma and Kuñjara were the chief male attendants;

Sirīmā and Yasavatī were the chief female attendants.

24.

That Buddha, risen to eighty cubits in height,

Illuminates all directions, like the risen banner of Indra.

25.

Arisen in his body, an unsurpassed garland of radiance;

By day or by night, it pervades a yojana all around.

26.

For sixty thousand years, life span exists for that long;

Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.

27.

Having shown the Buddha's power, proclaiming the Deathless in the world;

He attained Nibbāna without clinging, like a fire with the elimination of fuel.

28.

That body like a jewel, that Teaching incomparable;

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

29.

The Buddha Revata, bearer of fame, attained final Nibbāna in a great city;

There was a wide-spread distribution of relics in those various regions.

The lineage of the Blessed One Revata is fifth.

Next Chapter 8. The Chronicle of the Buddha Sobhita
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