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The Chronicle of the Buddha Kakusandha
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Kakusandha by name, immeasurable, difficult to approach.
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Like a lion having broken through a cage, attained the highest enlightenment.
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There was the full realisation of the teaching for forty thousand koṭis.
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He awakened thirty thousand crores of gods and humans.
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His full realisation of the teaching was incalculable by counting.
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Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, of peaceful minds, such ones.
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Of those who had attained the plane of the tamed, through the elimination of the group of enemies, the mental corruptions.
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Having given no small gift to the Truth-finder, to the sons of the Conqueror.
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All this that is wished for, I prepare, the choicest of the choicest.
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"In this fortunate cosmic cycle, this one will be a Buddha.
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I determined upon further ascetic practice, for the fulfilment of the ten perfections.
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Seeking omniscience, I went forth in his presence.
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Visākhā was the name of the mother, of the Teacher Kakusandha.
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The excellent, the foremost among men, of good birth, of great fame.
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Kāma, Kāmavaṇṇa, and Kāmasuddhi by name, three excellent mansions.
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Rocinī was the name of that woman, Uttara was the name of her son.
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For no less than eight months, the Conqueror strove in striving.
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The great hero turned the wheel, at the deer-park, the highest of men.
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Buddhija by name was the attendant of the Teacher Kakusandha.
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The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the Sirīsa tree.
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Nandā and Sunandā were the chief female attendants.
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The colour of gold emanates, ten yojanas all around.
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Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.
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Having roared like a lion's roar, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.
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All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?
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Right there is his excellent stūpa, raised up a league into the sky.
The lineage of the Blessed One Kakusandha is twenty-second.
