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Previous 7. Chronicle of the Buddha Revata

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The Chronicle of the Buddha Sobhita

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After Revata, the Leader named Sobhita;

Concentrated, with peaceful mind, matchless, without equal.

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That Conqueror, in his own home, turned around his mind;

Having attained consummate enlightenment, he set in motion the wheel of the Teaching.

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From below, from Avīci, and also from above, from the highest point of existence;

In between here, there was one assembly, at the exposition of the Teaching.

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To that assembly the Perfectly Enlightened One set in motion the wheel of the Teaching;

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

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Then also, while he was teaching, at the assembly of deities;

For ninety thousand crores, there was the second full realisation.

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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 expounded the Teaching;

Then of a thousand koṭis, there was the third full realisation.

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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.

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Furthermore, the city's group gives a gift to the Highest of Men;

Then the second meeting was of ninety koṭis.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Asama and Sunetta were the chief disciples;

Anoma by name was the attendant of the great sage Sobhita.

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Nakulā and Sujātā were the chief female disciples;

And that Buddha, while awakening, was awakened at the foot of a nāga tree.

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Ramma and Sudatta were the chief male attendants;

Nakulā and Cittā were the chief female attendants.

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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 Perfectly 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.

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