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The Chronicle of Buddha Vipassī
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The one with vision named Vipassī by name arose in the world.
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To set in motion the wheel of the Teaching, he departed for the city of Bandhumatī.
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The first full realisation was not to be told by counting.
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For eighty-four thousand, there was the second full realisation.
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To those who had reached the park, the one with vision expounded the Teaching.
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They too, having gone to the excellent Teaching, there was the third full realisation.
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Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, of peaceful minds, such ones.
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The second meeting was of a hundred thousand monks.
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There, in the midst of the group of monks, the Perfectly Enlightened One outshines.
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Atula by name, possessing merit, resplendent.
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Playing divine musical instruments, I approached the elder of the world.
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Inlaid with gems, pearls and jewels, adorned with all ornaments;
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"Ninety-one cosmic cycles from now, this one will be a Buddha.
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Having striven in striving, having performed austerities.
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Having taken up the milk-rice there, he will approach the Nerañjarā.
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By the prepared excellent path, he will approach the foot of the Bodhi tree.
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At the root of the holy fig tree, the one of great fame will awaken to the highest enlightenment.
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His father will be named Suddhodana, this one will be Gotama.
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Kolita and Upatissa will be the chief disciples;
Ānanda by name will be the attendant, he will attend upon this Conqueror.
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Without mental corruptions, without lust, with peaceful minds, concentrated;
The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the holy fig tree.
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Nanda's mother and Uttarā will be the chief female attendants;
The life span of that famous Gotama will be a hundred years."
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I determined upon further ascetic practice, for the fulfilment of the ten perfections.
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His mother was named Bandhumatī, of Vipassī, the great sage.
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Nanda, Sunanda, and Sirimā, three excellent mansions.
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Sudassanā was the name of that woman, Samavattakkhandha was the name of her son.
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For no less than eight months, the Conqueror strove in striving.
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The great hero turned the wheel, at the deer-park, the highest of men.
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Asoka by name was the attendant of Vipassī, the great sage.
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The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the trumpet-flower tree.
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Sirimā and Uttarā were the chief female attendants.
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His radiance radiates all around for seven yojanas.
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Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.
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And taught the path and non-path to the remaining worldlings.
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Having blazed like a great mass of fire, he, together with his disciples, 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 seven yojanas.
The lineage of the Blessed One Vipassī is nineteenth.
