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Previous Chapter 28. The Section on Miscellaneous About the Buddhas

29.

Account of the Distribution of Relics

1.

Mahāgotama, the supreme conqueror, attained final Nibbāna in Kusinārā;

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

2.

One of Ajātasattu, one in the city of Vesālī;

One in Kapilavatthu, and one in Allakappa.

3.

One in Rāmagāma, and one in Veṭhadīpa;

One among the Mallas of Pāvā, and one among the Mallas of Kusinārā.

4.

The brahmin named Doṇa caused a monument to be built for the urn;

The Moriyas, with satisfied minds, caused a monument to be built for the embers.

5.

Eight relic stupas, the ninth the vessel shrine;

The embers stupa the tenth, established at that very time.

6.

The turban, the four canine teeth, and the two collar-bone relics;

These seven are unbroken, the remaining relics are as if broken.

7.

The great ones are the size of mung beans, and the middling ones are like broken rice grains;

The small ones are the size of mustard seeds, and the relics are of various colours.

8.

The great ones are gold-coloured, and the middling ones are pearl-coloured;

The small ones are bud-coloured, and they measure sixteen doṇas of clay.

9.

Five great measures, five middling measures;

And six small measures too, these are all the relics.

10.

The turban in the island of Ceylon, and the left one in the Brahma world;

And the right eye in Ceylon, all these are established.

11.

One tooth was in the city of the devas, one was in the city of the nāgas;

One in the domain of Gandhāra, one of the king of Kaliṅga.

12.

Forty even teeth, hairs of the head and body hair altogether;

The gods carried away each one, to a succession of world-systems.

13.

At Vajirā, the Blessed One's bowl and staff and robe;

The inner robe at the family house, the bed-sheet at the city called Kapila.

14.

In the city of Pāṭaliputta, a water vessel and a waistband;

In Campā a water-cloth, and woollen cloth in Kosala.

15.

The ochre robe in the Brahma world, and the turban in the city of the Thirty-three heaven;

The sitting cloth among the Avantis, and the bed-sheet in the realm then.

16.

Fire-sticks in Mithilā, in Videha a forest for the assembly;

An adze and a needle-case too, in the city of Indapatta then.

17.

The remaining requisites, in the country of Aparantaka;

Used by the sage, people made then.

18.

There was a wide-spread distribution of relics, of Gotama, the great sage;

Out of compassion for living beings, it was ancient at that time.

The Treatise on the Distribution of Relics is concluded.

The Chronicle of the Buddhas is finished.

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