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Previous Chapter 18. The Chronicle of the Buddha Siddhattha

19.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Tissa

1.

After Siddhattha, matchless, without equal;

Of infinite power, of immeasurable fame, Tissa, the chief leader of the world.

2.

Having dispelled the darkness of ignorance, having illuminated the world with its gods;

The compassionate great hero, the one with vision, arose in the world.

3.

His supernormal power too was incomparable, incomparable were his morality and concentration;

Having gone to perfection in all respects, he set in motion the wheel of the Teaching.

4.

That Buddha, in the ten thousand world systems, proclaimed the pure word;

Hundreds of koṭis fully realised, at the first teaching of the Dhamma.

5.

The second was of ninety koṭis, the third of sixty koṭis;

He released beings from bondage, men and deities, then.

6.

There were three assemblies of Tissa, the chief leader of the world;

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

7.

The first meeting was of a hundred thousand who had eliminated the mental corruptions;

The second meeting was of ninety hundred thousand.

8.

The third meeting was of eight hundred thousand,

Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, fully blown with liberation.

9.

I at that time, a warrior named Sujāta;

Having abandoned great wealth, I went forth in the seer's going forth.

10.

When I had gone forth, the leader of the world arose;

Having heard the sound "Buddha," rapture arose in me.

11.

Divine mandārava flowers, lotuses, and coral tree blossoms;

Having held up with both hands, shaking them, I approached.

12.

Surrounded by the four castes, Tissa, the supreme leader of the world;

Having taken a flower, I held it on the head of that Conqueror.

13.

That Buddha too declared of me, having sat down in the midst of the people;

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

14.

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

15.

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

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

16.

The city was named Khemaka, the warrior was named Janasandha;

Padumā was the name of the mother of Tissa, the great sage.

17.

For seven thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Guhāsela, Nārisaya, and Nisabha, three excellent mansions.

18.

Thirty thousand women, fully adorned;

Subhaddā was the name of that woman, Ānanda was the name of her son.

19.

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

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

20.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Tissa, the chief leader of the world;

The great hero turned the wheel, at the excellent Yasavatī.

21.

Brahmadeva and Udaya were the chief disciples;

Samaṅga was the name of the attendant of Tissa, the great sage.

22.

Phussā and Sudattā were the chief female disciples;

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

23.

Sambala and Sirimā were the chief male attendants;

Kisāgotamī and Upasenā were the chief female attendants.

24.

That Buddha was sixty cubits, the Conqueror was in height;

Incomparable, matchless, he appears like the Himalaya.

25.

For him too, of incomparable power, his life span was unsurpassed;

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

26.

Having experienced the highest, the excellent, the foremost, the great fame;

Having blazed like a great mass of fire, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.

27.

Like a rain cloud by the wind, like dew by the sun;

Like darkness by a lamp, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.

28.

Tissa, the supreme conqueror, the Buddha, attained final Nibbāna in Nanda Park;

Right there is the stūpa of the Conqueror, three yojanas in height.

The lineage of the Blessed One Tissa is seventeenth.

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