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Previous 6. Chronicle of the Buddha Sumana

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Chronicle of the Buddha Revata

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After Sumana, the Leader named Revata;

Incomparable, matchless, unequalled, the highest Conqueror.

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He too made known the Teaching, being requested by Brahmā;

The defining of the aggregates and elements, the non-occurrence in any kind of existence.

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At his full realisations there were three, at the exposition of the Teaching;

The first full realisation was not to be told by counting.

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When the sage Revata trained King Arindama;

Then of a thousand koṭis, there was the second full realisation.

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For seven days from seclusion, having emerged, the lord of men;

A hundred crores of humans and deities, he trained in the highest fruit.

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There were three assemblies of the great sage Revata;

Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, well-liberated ones of such quality.

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Those who assembled first surpassed the path of counting;

The second meeting was of a hundred thousand koṭis.

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He who was matchless in wisdom, a follower of his Wheel;

He was then diseased, having reached danger of life.

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Those sages who then came to enquire after his illness;

Ten thousand koṭis of Worthy Ones, the third meeting was.

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I at that time, a brahmin named Atideva;

Having approached Revata the Buddha, I went for refuge to him.

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Having praised his morality and concentration, and the highest quality of wisdom,

According to my strength, I gave a cloak.

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That Buddha too declared of me, Revata, the leader of the world;

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

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"Having striven in striving, etc. we shall be face to face with him."

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

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

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Even then, having remembered that Buddha-teaching, I developed it;

I will bring that teaching, which was longed for by me.

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The city was named Sudhaññavatī, the warrior was named Vipula;

The mother was named Vipulā, of the great sage Revata.

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For six thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Sudassana, Ratanagghi, and Āveḷa, decorated;

Produced by meritorious deeds, three excellent mansions.

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Thirty-three thousand women, fully adorned;

Sudassanā was the name of that woman, Varuṇa was her son.

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

For no less than seven months, the Conqueror strove in striving.

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Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Revata, the leader of the world;

The great hero turned the wheel, at Varuṇa's park, in the glorious house.

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Varuṇa and Brahmadeva were the chief disciples;

Sambhava by name was the attendant of the great sage Revata.

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Bhaddā and Subhaddā were the chief female disciples;

That Buddha too, equal to the matchless, was awakened at the foot of a nāga tree.

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Paduma and Kuñjara were the chief male attendants;

Sirīmā and Yasavatī were the chief female attendants.

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That Buddha, risen to eighty cubits in height,

Illuminates all directions, like the risen banner of Indra.

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Arisen in his body, an unsurpassed garland of radiance;

By day or by night, it pervades a yojana all around.

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For sixty thousand years, life span exists for that long;

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

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Having shown the Buddha's power, proclaiming the Deathless in the world;

He attained Nibbāna without clinging, like a fire with the elimination of fuel.

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That body like a jewel, that Teaching incomparable;

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

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The Buddha Revata, bearer of fame, attained final Nibbāna in a great city;

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

The lineage of the Blessed One Revata is fifth.

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