Loading...

Paliverse

Search Ask PaliVerse Signin

The PaliVerse Project

A UniVerse of Wisdom
100%
Font family
Theme
Navigation & Search

Hello ,How can i help you ?

Previous Chapter 8. The Chronicle of the Buddha Sobhita

9.

Chronicle of the Buddha Anomadassī

1.

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

Anomadassī, of immeasurable fame, radiant, difficult to surpass.

2.

He, having cut off all bondage, having destroyed the three existences;

Taught the path leading to non-return, to gods and humans.

3.

Unshakeable like the ocean, difficult to approach like a mountain;

He is infinite like space, like a king of sal trees in full bloom.

4.

Even by seeing that Buddha, living beings are pleased;

Having heard the word he speaks, they attain the Deathless.

5.

The full realization of the teaching for him was then prosperous and flourishing;

Hundreds of koṭis fully realised, at the first teaching of the Dhamma.

6.

Thereafter at the full realization, when the showers of the Teaching were raining;

Eighty million fully realised, at the second teaching of the Dhamma.

7.

Thereafter when raining, and satisfying living beings;

For seventy-eight crores, there was the third full realization.

8.

There were three assemblies of that great sage too;

Of those who had attained the power of direct knowledge, fully blown with liberation.

9.

There was then an assembly of eight hundred thousand,

Of those who had abandoned vanity and delusion, of peaceful minds, such ones.

10.

The second meeting was of seven hundred thousand,

Of those without blemish, stainless, at peace, such ones.

11.

The third meeting was of six hundred thousand,

Of those who had attained the power of direct knowledge, quenched, austere ascetics.

12.

I at that time, was a demon of great supernormal power;

Lord wielding power over many tens of millions of demons.

13.

Even then, having approached that excellent Buddha, the great sage,

I satisfied with food and drink the leader of the world together with the Community.

14.

He too, the sage with purified vision, declared of me then;

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

15.

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

16.

Having heard his word too, joyful, with an agitated mind;

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

17.

The city was named Candavatī, the warrior was named Yasavā;

The mother was named Yasodharā, of the Teacher Anomadassī.

18.

For ten thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Sirī, Upasirī, and Vaḍḍha, three excellent mansions.

19.

Twenty-three thousand women, fully adorned;

Sirimā was the name of that woman, Upavāṇa was her son.

20.

Having seen the four signs, he departed by palanquin;

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

21.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, Anomadassī, the great sage;

The great hero turned the wheel, in the park named Sudassana.

22.

Nisabha and Anoma were the chief disciples;

Varuṇa by name was the attendant of the Teacher Anomadassī.

23.

Sundarī and Sumanā were the chief female disciples;

The enlightenment tree of that Blessed One is called the Ajjuna tree.

24.

Nandivaḍḍha and Sirivaḍḍha were the chief male attendants;

Uppalā and Padumā were the chief female attendants.

25.

Fifty-eight cubits, very high, the great sage;

Radiance radiates from him, like the risen sun.

26.

For a hundred thousand years, life span exists for that long;

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

27.

The Scriptures, fully in bloom, with Worthy Ones, such ones;

With those without lust, with the unstained, the Conqueror's Dispensation was made resplendent.

28.

And that Teacher of immeasurable fame, those pairs incomparable;

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

29.

The Conqueror Anomadassī, the Teacher, attained final Nibbāna in Dhamma Park;

Right there is the stūpa of the Conqueror, twenty-five in height.

The lineage of the Blessed One Anomadassī is seventh.

Next Chapter 10. The Chronicle of the Buddha Paduma
×

Error: Contact form not found.

×

Add notes for personal use