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Previous Chapter 17. The Chronicle of the Buddha Dhammadassī

18.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Siddhattha

1.

After Dhammadassī, the Leader named Siddhattha;

Having dispelled all darkness, like the sun that has risen.

2.

He too, having attained the highest enlightenment, helping across the world including the gods;

Rained down with the Dhamma-cloud, extinguishing the world including the gods.

3.

For him too, of incomparable power, there were three full realizations;

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

4.

Furthermore, at Bhīmaratha, when he beat the drum;

Then for ninety koṭis, there was the second full realization.

5.

When the Buddha taught the Teaching, in Vebhāra, the best of cities;

Then for ninety koṭis, there was the third full realization.

6.

There were three assemblies, of that highest of two-footed beings;

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

7.

Of a hundred ten million and ninety, and also eighty ten million;

These were the three occasions, at the assembly of the spotless ones.

8.

I at that time, an ascetic named Maṅgala;

Of risen radiance, difficult to overcome, concentrated with the power of direct knowledge.

9.

Having brought fruit from the rose-apple tree, I gave to Siddhattha;

The Fully Self-Enlightened One, having received, spoke these words.

10.

"See this ascetic, the matted-hair ascetic of lofty austerity;

Ninety-four cosmic cycles from now, this one will be a Buddha.

11.

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

12.

Having heard his word too, I gladdened my mind even more;

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

13.

The city was named Vebhāra, the warrior was named Udena;

The mother was named Suphassā, of the great sage Siddhattha.

14.

For ten thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Koka, Uppala, and Kokanada, three excellent mansions.

15.

Thirty-six thousand women, fully adorned;

Somanassā was the name of that woman, Anupama was her son.

16.

Having seen the four signs, he departed by palanquin;

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

17.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Siddhattha, the leader of the world;

The great hero turned the wheel, at the deer-park, the highest of men.

18.

Sambala and Sumitta were the chief disciples;

Revata by name was the attendant of the great sage Siddhattha.

19.

Sīvalā and Surāmā were the chief female disciples;

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

20.

Suppiya and Samudda were the chief male attendants;

Rammā and Surammā were the chief female attendants.

21.

That Buddha, risen sixty cubits into the sky,

Resembling the radiance of gold, the ten-thousand world-system shines brightly.

22.

That Buddha too, equal to the matchless, unequalled, without equal;

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

23.

Having shown vast radiance, having caused his disciples to flourish;

Having delighted through attainments, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.

24.

Siddhattha, the excellent sage, the Buddha, attained final Nibbāna in Anoma Park;

Right there is his excellent stūpa, raised up four yojanas.

The lineage of the Blessed One Siddhattha is sixteenth.

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