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Previous 21. The Chronicle of Buddha Vipassī

22.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Sikhī

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After Vipassī, the Perfectly Enlightened One, the best of bipeds;

The Conqueror named Sikhī arose, matchless, without equal.

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

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

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

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

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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 realisation.

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

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

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There were three assemblies of the great sage Sikhī;

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

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The first meeting was of a hundred thousand monks;

The second meeting was of eighty thousand monks.

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The third meeting was of seventy thousand monks;

Untainted, like a lotus grown in water.

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I at that time, a warrior named Arindama;

I satisfied the Community headed by the Enlightened by himself, with food and drink.

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

I gave an adorned elephant vehicle to the Perfectly Enlightened One.

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

I filled my mind, constantly and firmly established.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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For seven thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Sucandaka, Giri, and Vasabha, three excellent mansions.

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Twenty-four thousand women, fully adorned;

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

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

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

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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.

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Abhibhū and Sambhava were the chief disciples;

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

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Sakhilā and Padumā were the chief female disciples;

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

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Sirivaḍḍha and Nanda were the chief male attendants;

Cittā and Suguttā were the chief female attendants.

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That Buddha, risen to seventy cubits in height,

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

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

Radiates in every direction, the radiance extending three yojanas.

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

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

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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.

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

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

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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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