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5.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Maṅgala

1.

After Koṇḍañña, the Leader named Maṅgala;

Having dispelled the darkness in the world, he held aloft the torch of the Teaching.

2.

His radiance was incomparable, surpassing the other Conquerors;

Having overcome the radiance of the moon and sun, the ten-thousand world-system shines brightly.

3.

That Buddha too made known the four highest excellent truths;

Those who, having drunk the flavour of truth, dispel the great darkness.

4.

Having attained the incomparable enlightenment, at the first exposition of the Teaching;

There was the full realisation of the teaching for a hundred thousand koṭis.

5.

In the abode of Surinda, the god, the Buddha expounded the Teaching;

Then of a thousand koṭis, was the second occasion.

6.

When Sunanda the wheel-turning monarch approached the Perfectly Enlightened One;

Then the Perfectly Enlightened One beat the drum of the Teaching, the excellent best.

7.

The populace who were followers of Sunanda, then were ninety million;

All of them without remainder, were "come, monk" monks.

8.

There were three assemblies of the great sage Maṅgala;

The first meeting was of a hundred thousand koṭis.

9.

The second was of a hundred thousand koṭis, the third of ninety koṭis;

Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, then was the meeting.

10.

I at that time, a brahmin named Suruci;

A reciter, a bearer of sacred texts, one who has gone beyond the three Vedas.

11.

Having approached him, having gone for refuge to the Teacher;

I venerated the Community headed by the Enlightened by himself, with scents and garlands;

Having venerated with scents and garlands, I satisfied them with cow's milk.

12.

That Buddha too declared of me, Maṅgala, the best of bipeds;

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

13.

"Having striven in striving, 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.

Then, cultivating joy, for the attainment of the excellent enlightenment;

Having given my house to the Buddha, I went forth in his presence.

16.

The discourses and also the monastic discipline, the ninefold Teacher's instruction;

Having learnt all thoroughly, I made resplendent the Conqueror's Dispensation.

17.

There, dwelling diligent, having developed the supreme meditation;

Having gone to the perfection of direct knowledge, I went to the Brahma world.

18.

The city was named Uttara, the warrior was named Uttara;

The mother was named Uttarā, of the great sage Maṅgala.

19.

For nine thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Glorious, pure, splendid, three excellent mansions.

20.

Thirty thousand women, fully adorned;

Yasavatī was the name of that woman, Sīvala was her son.

21.

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

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

22.

Asked by Brahmā, the peaceful one, the Leader named Maṅgala;

The great hero turned the wheel, in the forest, the excellent and glorious.

23.

Sudeva and Dhammasena were the chief disciples;

Pālita by name was the attendant of the great sage Maṅgala.

24.

Sīvalā and Asokā were the chief female disciples;

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

25.

Nanda and Visākha were the chief male attendants;

Anulā and Sutanā were the chief female attendants.

26.

Eighty-eight ratanas, very high, the great sage;

From him radiated rays, many hundreds of thousands.

27.

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

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

28.

Just as waves in the ocean, they cannot be counted;

So too his disciples, they cannot be counted.

29.

As long as the Perfectly Enlightened One stood, Maṅgala, the leader of the world;

There was no death with defilements then in his Dispensation.

30.

Having held aloft the torch of the Teaching, having helped the great multitude cross over;

Having blazed like a fire, he, of great fame, attained final Nibbāna.

31.

Having shown the intrinsic nature of activities to the world with its gods;

Having blazed like a great mass of fire, just as the sun has passed away.

32.

In the park named Vassara, the Buddha Maṅgala attained Nibbāna;

Right there is the stūpa of the Conqueror, thirty yojanas in height.

The lineage of the Blessed One Maṅgala is third.

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