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Previous Chapter 26. The Chronicle of the Buddha Kassapa

27.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Gotama

1.

I am now the Fully Self-Enlightened One, Gotama, increaser of the Sakyas;

Having striven in striving, I attained the highest enlightenment.

2.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, I set in motion the wheel of the Teaching;

There was the first full realization for eighteen koṭis.

3.

Then also, while he was teaching, at the assembly of humans and gods;

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

4.

Right here I now exhorted my own son;

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

5.

There was one assembly for me, of disciples, great sages;

A meeting of one thousand two hundred and fifty monks.

6.

Shining, spotless, in the midst of the Community of monks;

I give all that is wished for, like a gem that grants all desires.

7.

For those longing for fruition, for those seeking to abandon desire for becoming;

I make known the four truths, out of compassion for living beings.

8.

There was the full realization of the teaching for ten and twenty thousand;

The full realizations of one or two are incalculable by counting.

9.

Widespread, known to many, prosperous, flourishing, fully blossomed;

Here the Dispensation of the Sage of the Sakyans was well purified by me.

10.

Without mental corruptions, without lust, with peaceful minds, concentrated;

Monks, many hundreds, all surround me always.

11.

Now those who at present, give up human existence;

Trainees who have not attained their goal, those monks are censured by the wise.

12.

And praising the noble, people always devoted to the Teaching;

The mindful ones, gone into the stream of saṃsāra, will understand.

13.

My city was Kapilavatthu, King Suddhodana was my father;

My mother who gave me birth is called Queen Māyā.

14.

For twenty-nine years, I dwelt in the house;

Ramma, Suramma, and Subhaka, three excellent mansions.

15.

Forty thousand women, fully adorned;

Bhaddakañcanā was the name of that woman, Rāhula was her son.

16.

Having seen the four signs, I departed by horse vehicle;

For six years I practised the striving conduct, hard to do.

17.

At Bārāṇasī in Isipatana, the wheel was set in motion by me;

I am the Gotama, the Self-awakened One, the refuge of all living beings.

18.

Kolita and Upatissa, the two monks who were the chief disciples;

Ānanda by name was the attendant, one who kept near to me;

Khemā and Uppalavaṇṇā, the nuns who were the chief female disciples.

19.

Citta and Hatthaka of Āḷavī, the chief male attendant lay followers;

Nanda's mother and Uttarā, the chief female attendant lay followers.

20.

At the root of the Bodhi tree, I attained the highest enlightenment;

The halo always around me, risen up to sixteen cubits.

21.

Little is the life span of a hundred years, that is found nowadays;

Remaining for that long, I help many people to cross over.

22.

Having established the torch of the Teaching, the final enlightenment of the people;

I too, before long, together with the Community of disciples;

Right here I shall attain final Nibbāna, like a fire through the exhaustion of fuel.

23.

And those incomparable powers, and these ten powers;

And this body bearing virtues, adorned with the thirty-two excellent characteristics.

24.

Having illuminated the ten directions, like the sun with its six radiances;

All that will disappear, are not all activities empty?

The lineage of the Blessed One Gotama is twenty-fifth.

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