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The Chronicle of the Enlightened One Nārada
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Nārada by name, matchless, without equal.
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Adorned with garlands and ornaments, approached the pleasure grove.
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Having reached it, he sat down close, beneath the great Soṇa tree.
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With that he discriminated the activities, upturning and overturning.
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He attained consummate enlightenment, and the fourteen Buddha-knowledges.
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There was the first full realisation for a hundred thousand koṭis.
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He performed a miracle then, showing to the world with its gods.
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Ninety thousand crores crossed beyond all doubt.
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For eighty thousand crores, there was the third full realisation.
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The first meeting was of a hundred thousand koṭis.
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Ninety thousand crores, spotless ones, met together then.
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Then the sons of the Conqueror met together, eighty hundred thousand.
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One who moves through the sky I was, one who has gone beyond in the five direct knowledges.
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Having satisfied with food and drink, I honoured with sandalwood.
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"Immeasurable cosmic cycles from now, this one will be a Buddha.
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I determined upon a fierce ascetic practice, for the fulfilment of the ten perfections.
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The mother was named Anomā, of the great sage Nārada.
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Jita, Vijita, and Abhirāma, three excellent mansions.
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Vijitasenā was the name of that woman, Nanduttara was her son.
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For seven days the striving conduct, the highest of men practised.
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The great hero turned the wheel, at the excellent Dhanañca park.
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Vāseṭṭha by name was the attendant of the great sage Nārada.
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The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the Great Soṇa.
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Indāvarī and Vaṇḍī were the chief female attendants.
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Resembling the radiance of gold, the ten-thousand world-system shines brightly.
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Continuously, by day and night, it pervades a yojana always.
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Light torches or lamps, covered by the Buddha's rays.
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Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.
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So too his Dispensation shines with Worthy Ones.
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Having made firm the bridge of the Teaching, he, the lord of men, 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 four yojanas.
The lineage of the Blessed One Nārada is ninth.
