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Previous Chapter 15. The Chronicle of the Buddha Piyadassī

16.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Atthadassī

1.

In that very Maṇḍa cosmic cycle, Atthadassī of great fame;

Having dispelled the great darkness, attained the highest enlightenment.

2.

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

He satisfied the world with the deathless, the ten-thousandfold world with its gods.

3.

For him too, the Protector of the World, there were three full realizations;

There was the first full realization for a hundred thousand koṭis.

4.

When the Buddha Atthadassī was wandering on a journey in heaven;

For a hundred thousand koṭis, there was the second full realization.

5.

Furthermore, when the Buddha taught near his father;

For a hundred thousand koṭis, there was the third full realization.

6.

There were three assemblies of that great sage too;

Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, of peaceful minds, such ones.

7.

The first meeting was of ninety-eight thousand;

The second meeting was of eighty-eight thousand.

8.

The third meeting was of seven million eight hundred thousand,

Liberated by non-clinging, spotless great sages.

9.

"I at that time, a matted-hair ascetic of fierce austerity;

Susīma by name, considered the best on earth.

10.

Divine mandārava flowers, lotuses, and coral tree blossoms;

Having brought them from the world of the gods, I honoured the Fully Self-Enlightened One.

11.

That Buddha too declared of me, Atthadassī, the great sage;

"In eighteen hundred cosmic cycles, this one will be a Buddha.

12.

"Having striven in striving, etc. we shall be face to face with him."

13.

Having heard his word too, joyful, with an agitated mind;

I determined upon further ascetic practice, for the fulfilment of the ten perfections.

14.

The city was named Sobhaṇa, the warrior was named Sāgara;

The mother was named Sudassanā, of the Teacher Atthadassī.

15.

For ten thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Amaragiri, Sugiri, and Vāhana, three excellent mansions.

16.

Thirty-three thousand women, fully adorned;

Visākhā was the name of that woman, and Sela was her son.

17.

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

For no less than eight months, the Conqueror strove in striving.

18.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Atthadassī of great fame;

The great hero turned the wheel, at Anoma park, the lord of men.

19.

Santa and Upasanta were the chief disciples;

Abhaya was the attendant of the Teacher Atthadassī.

20.

Dhammā and Sudhammā were the chief female disciples;

The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the champak tree.

21.

Nakula and Nisabha were the chief male attendants;

Makilā and Sunandā were the chief female attendants.

22.

That Buddha too, equal to the matchless, risen to eighty cubits in height;

Shines like a king of sal trees, like the king of stars when full.

23.

His natural rays, many hundreds of millions,

Above, below, the ten directions, always pervade a yojana.

24.

That Buddha too, the lord of men, the sage, the highest of all beings;

For a hundred thousand years, the one with vision stood in the world.

25.

Having shown incomparable light, having shone in the world with its gods;

He too attained impermanence, like a fire with the elimination of fuel.

26.

Atthadassī, the supreme conqueror, attained final Nibbāna in Anoma Park;

There was a wide-spread distribution of relics in those various regions.

The lineage of the Blessed One Atthadassī is fourteenth.

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