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Previous Chapter 19. The Chronicle of the Buddha Tissa

20.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Phussa

1.

In that very Maṇḍa cosmic cycle, there was an unsurpassed Teacher;

Incomparable, equal to the matchless, Phussa, the chief leader of the world.

2.

He too, having destroyed all darkness, having disentangled the great tangle;

Satisfying the world including the gods, he rained down with the water of the Deathless.

3.

When setting in motion the wheel of the Teaching, at the auspicious constellation of Phussa;

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

4.

For ninety hundred thousand, there was the second full realization;

For eighty hundred thousand, there was the third full realization.

5.

There were three assemblies of the great sage Phussa too;

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

6.

The first meeting was of sixty hundred thousand;

The second meeting was of fifty hundred thousand.

7.

The third meeting was of four hundred thousand,

Liberated by non-clinging, with rebirth-linking cut off.

8.

I at that time, a warrior named Vijitāvī;

Having abandoned the great kingdom, I went forth in his presence.

9.

That Buddha too declared of me, Phussa, the chief leader of the world;

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

10.

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

11.

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

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

12.

The discourses and also the monastic discipline, the ninefold Teacher's instruction;

Having learnt all thoroughly, I made resplendent the Conqueror's Dispensation.

13.

There, dwelling diligent, having developed the supreme meditation;

Having gone to the perfection of direct knowledges, I went to the Brahma world.

14.

A city named Kāsika, a warrior named Jayasena;

The mother was named Sirimā, of the great sage Phussa too.

15.

For nine thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Garuḷapakkha, Haṃsa, and Suvaṇṇabhārā, three excellent mansions.

16.

Thirty thousand women, fully adorned;

Kisāgotamī was the name of that woman, Anūpama was her son.

17.

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

For six months the striving conduct, the highest of men practised.

18.

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

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

19.

Surakkhita and Dhammasena were the chief disciples;

Sabhiya by name was the attendant of the great sage Phussa too.

20.

Cālā and Upacālā were the chief female disciples;

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

21.

Dhanañcaya and Visākha were the chief male attendants;

Padumā and Nāgā were the chief female attendants.

22.

Fifty-eight cubits, he too very high, the sage;

Shines like the sun, like the king of stars when full.

23.

For ninety thousand years, life span exists for that long;

Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.

24.

Having exhorted many beings, having helped many people cross over;

That Teacher too, of incomparable fame, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.

25.

Phussa, the supreme conqueror, the Teacher, attained final Nibbāna in Senā Park;

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

The lineage of the Blessed One Phussa is eighteenth.

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