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Previous Chapter 24. The Chronicle of the Buddha Kakusandha

25.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Koṇāgamana

1.

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

The Conqueror named Koṇāgamana, the elder of the world, the lord of men.

2.

Having fulfilled the ten qualities, he crossed over the wilderness;

Having washed away all stain, he attained the highest enlightenment.

3.

When Koṇāgamana, the leader, was setting in motion the wheel of the Teaching;

There was the first full realization for thirty thousand koṭis.

4.

And while performing the miracle, in the crushing of the opponents' views;

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

5.

Then, having performed a miraculous transformation, the Conqueror went to the city of the gods;

There the Fully Self-Enlightened One dwelt, on the Paṇḍukambala stone.

6.

Teaching the seven treatises, that sage resided for the rains retreat;

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

7.

Of that god of gods too, there was one meeting;

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

8.

Of thirty thousand monks, then was the meeting;

Of those who had overcome the floods, and broken free from death.

9.

I at that time, a warrior named Pabbata;

Accomplished with friends and colleagues, with infinite forces and vehicles.

10.

Having gone to see the Self-Enlightened One, having heard the unsurpassed teaching;

Having invited the Community with the Conqueror, having given a gift as much as wished.

11.

Woollen cloth and Chinese silk, silk fabric and woollen blanket too;

And golden slippers as well, I gave to the Teacher's disciples.

12.

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

"In this fortunate cosmic cycle, 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 too, I gladdened my mind even more;

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

15.

Seeking omniscience, having given a gift to the Highest of Men;

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

16.

The city was named Sobhavatī, the warrior was named Sobha;

There in that city dwelt the great family of the Fully Self-Enlightened One.

17.

The brahmin Yaññadatta was the father of that Buddha;

The mother was named Uttarā, of the Teacher Koṇāgamana.

18.

For three thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Tusita, Santusita, and Santuṭṭha, three excellent mansions.

19.

No less than sixteen thousand women, fully adorned;

Rucigattā was the name of that woman, Satthavāha was her son.

20.

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

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

21.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Koṇāgamana, the leader;

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

22.

Bhiyyaso and Uttara by name were the chief disciples;

Sotthija by name was the attendant of the Teacher Koṇāgamana.

23.

Samuddā and Uttarā were the chief female disciples;

The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the glamorous fig tree.

24.

Ugga and Somadeva were the chief male attendants;

Sīvalā and Sāmā were the chief female attendants.

25.

That Buddha, risen to thirty cubits in height,

Like gold in the mouth of a forge, thus adorned with rays.

26.

Thirty thousand years was the life span of that Buddha;

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

27.

Having raised up a shrine of the Dhamma, adorned with the cloth of the Dhamma;

Having made a garland-ball of Dhamma-flowers, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.

28.

His people of great splendour, proclaiming the glorious teaching;

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

29.

Koṇāgamana, the Fully Self-Enlightened One, attained final Nibbāna at the Mountain Monastery;

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

The lineage of the Blessed One Koṇāgamana is twenty-third.

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