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Previous Chapter 21. The Chronicle of Buddha Vipassī

22.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Sikhī

1.

After Vipassī, the Fully Self-Enlightened One, the best of bipeds;

The Conqueror named Sikhī arose, matchless, without equal.

2.

Having crushed Māra's army, attained the highest enlightenment;

He set in motion the wheel of the Teaching, out of compassion for living beings.

3.

When Sikhī, the bull among conquerors, was setting in motion the wheel of the Teaching;

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

4.

Furthermore, while the Teaching was being taught, by the leader of the group, the Highest of Men;

For ninety thousand crores, there was the second full realization.

5.

And when he displayed the Twin Wonder to the world with its gods,

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

6.

There were three assemblies of the great sage Sikhī;

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

7.

The first meeting was of a hundred thousand monks;

The second meeting was of eighty thousand monks.

8.

The third meeting was of seventy thousand monks;

Untainted, like a lotus grown in water.

9.

I at that time, a warrior named Arindama;

I satisfied the Community headed by the Self-Enlightened One, with food and drink.

10.

Having given much excellent cloth, not a small amount of ten million cloths;

I gave an adorned elephant vehicle to the Fully Self-Enlightened One.

11.

Having created an elephant vehicle, I offered what was allowable;

I filled my mind, constantly and firmly established.

12.

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

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

13.

"Having gone forth from the delightful city called Kapila, etc. we shall be face to face with him."

14.

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

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

15.

The city was named Aruṇavatī, the warrior was named Aruṇa;

His mother was named Pabhāvatī, of the great sage Sikhī.

16.

For seven thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Sucandaka, Giri, and Vasabha, three excellent mansions.

17.

Twenty-four thousand women, fully adorned;

Sabbakāmā was the name of that woman, Atula was her son.

18.

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

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

19.

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

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

20.

Abhibhū and Sambhava were the chief disciples;

Khemaṅkara by name was the attendant of the great sage Sikhī.

21.

Sakhilā and Padumā were the chief female disciples;

The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the white lotus tree.

22.

Sirivaḍḍha and Nanda were the chief male attendants;

Cittā and Suguttā were the chief female attendants.

23.

That Buddha, risen to seventy cubits in height,

Resembling the radiance of gold, bearing the thirty-two excellent characteristics.

24.

The halo from his body too, by day and night continuously;

Radiates in every direction, the radiance extending three yojanas.

25.

Seventy thousand years was the life span of that great sage;

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

26.

Having rained the cloud of the Teaching, having moistened the world with its gods;

Having caused them to attain the secure end, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.

27.

Accomplished in features, with the thirty-two excellent characteristics;

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

28.

Sikhī, the excellent sage, the Buddha, attained final Nibbāna in Assa Park;

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

The lineage of the Blessed One Sikhī is twentieth.

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