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The Chronicle of the Buddha Sobhita
1.
After Revata, the Leader named Sobhita;
Concentrated, with peaceful mind, matchless, without equal.
2.
That Conqueror, in his own home, turned around his mind;
Having attained consummate enlightenment, he set in motion the wheel of the Teaching.
3.
From below, from Avīci, and also from above, from the highest point of existence;
In between here, there was one assembly, at the teaching of the Dhamma.
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To that assembly the Fully Self-Enlightened One set in motion the wheel of the Teaching;
The first full realization was not to be told by counting.
5.
Then also, while he was teaching, at the assembly of deities;
For ninety thousand crores, there was the second full realization.
6.
Furthermore, a prince, a warrior named Jayasena;
Having planted a park, he then dedicated it to the Buddha.
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Praising his sacrifice, the one with vision taught the Teaching;
Then of a thousand koṭis, there was the third full realization.
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There were three assemblies of the great sage Sobhita;
Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, of peaceful minds, such ones.
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Uggata was the name of that king, who gave a gift to the Highest of Men;
At that gift, a hundred koṭis of Worthy Ones assembled.
10.
Furthermore, the city's group gives a gift to the Highest of Men;
Then the second meeting was of ninety koṭis.
11.
Having dwelt in the heavenly world, when the Conqueror descended;
Then there was the third meeting of eighty koṭis.
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I at that time, a brahmin named Sujāta;
Then I satisfied the Buddha together with his disciples with food and drink.
13.
That Buddha too declared of me, Sobhita, the leader of the world;
"Immeasurable cosmic cycles from now, this one will be a Buddha.
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"Having striven in striving, etc.
we shall be face to face with him."
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Having heard his word too, joyful, with an agitated mind;
For the attainment of that very purpose, I made fierce energy.
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The city was named Sudhamma, the warrior was named Sudhamma;
The mother was named Sudhammā, of the great sage Sobhita.
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For nine thousand years, he dwelt in the house;
Kumuda, Nāḷina, and Paduma, three excellent mansions.
18.
Thirty-seven thousand women, fully adorned;
Maṇilā was the name of that woman, Sīha was her son.
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Having seen the four signs, he departed from the palace;
For seven days the striving conduct, having practised, the highest of men.
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Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Sobhita, the leader of the world;
The great hero turned the wheel, in the excellent Sudhamma park.
21.
Asama and Sunetta were the chief disciples;
Anoma by name was the attendant of the great sage Sobhita.
22.
Nakulā and Sujātā were the chief female disciples;
And that Buddha, while awakening, was awakened at the foot of a nāga tree.
23.
Ramma and Sudatta were the chief male attendants;
Nakulā and Cittā were the chief female attendants.
24.
Fifty-eight cubits, very high, the great sage;
It illuminates all directions, like the risen sun.
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Just as a forest in full bloom, perfumed with various fragrances;
So too his Scriptures, perfumed with the fragrance of morality.
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Just as the ocean, by name, is not satiable by seeing;
So too his Scriptures, are not satiable by hearing.
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For ninety thousand years, life span exists for that long;
Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.
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Having given exhortation and advice to the remaining people;
Having scorched like fire, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.
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And that Buddha, equal to the matchless, and those disciples who had attained power;
All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?
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Sobhita, the excellent Fully Self-Enlightened One, attained final Nibbāna at the Lion Monastery;
There was a wide-spread distribution of relics in those various regions.
The lineage of the Blessed One Sobhita is sixth.