Difficult to approach, equal to the matchless, Piyadassī of great fame.

Having destroyed all darkness, he set in motion the wheel of the Teaching.

There was the first full realisation for a hundred thousand koṭis.

Dispelling his view, the Teacher expounded the Teaching.

For ninety thousand crores, there was the second full realisation.

For eighty thousand crores, there was the third full realisation.

The first meeting was of a hundred thousand koṭis.

At the third assembly, there were eighty crores.

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

With a hundred thousand koṭis, I had a monastery built for the Community.

I firmly undertook the refuges and the five precepts.

"In eighteen hundred cosmic cycles, this one will be a Buddha.

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

Candā was the name of the mother, of the Teacher Piyadassī.

Sunimmala, Vimala, and Giriguhā, three excellent mansions.

Vimalā was the name of that woman, and Kañcanāveḷa was her son.

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

The great hero turned the wheel, at the delightful Usabha park.

Sobhita by name was the attendant of the Teacher Piyadassī.

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

Visākhā and Dhammadinnā were the chief female attendants.

Eighty cubits in height, he appears like a king of sal trees.

As was the radiance of that matchless great sage.

For ninety thousand years, the one with vision stood in the world.

All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?

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