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13.

The Chronicle of the Buddha Sumedha

1.

After Padumuttara, the Leader named Sumedha;

Difficult to approach, of risen radiance, the sage highest in all the world.

2.

With clear eyes, fair-faced, lofty, upright, majestic;

Seeking the welfare of all beings, he freed many from bondage.

3.

When the Buddha, having attained the consummate, highest enlightenment;

In the city of Sudassana, set in motion the wheel of the Teaching.

4.

At his full realizations there were three, at the teaching of the Dhamma;

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

5.

Furthermore, he, the Conqueror, tamed the demon Kumbhakaṇṇa;

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

6.

Furthermore, the one of immeasurable fame made known the four truths;

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

7.

There were three assemblies of Sumedha, the great sage;

Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, of peaceful minds, such ones.

8.

When the Conqueror approached the city named Sudassana;

Then a hundred koṭis of monks who had eliminated the mental corruptions met together.

9.

Furthermore, at Devakūṭa, when the kathina robe was spread for the monks;

Then the second meeting was of ninety koṭis.

10.

Furthermore, the one with ten powers, when he went on a journey;

Then there was the third meeting of eighty koṭis.

11.

"I at that time, a young man named Uttara;

Eighty crores of wealth, accumulated in my house.

12.

Having given the whole entire to the leader of the world together with the Community;

I went for refuge to him, and I delighted in the going forth.

13.

That Buddha too declared of me, giving thanksgiving;

"In thirty thousand cosmic cycles, this one will be a Buddha.

14.

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

15.

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

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

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, in sitting, standing, and walking;

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

18.

The city was named Sudassana, the warrior was named Sudatta;

The mother was named Sudattā, of Sumedha, the great sage.

19.

For nine thousand years, he dwelt in the house;

Sucanda, Kañcana, and Sirivaḍḍha, three excellent mansions.

20.

Thirty-six thousand women, fully adorned;

Sumanā was the name of that woman, Punabbasu was her son.

21.

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

For no less than a fortnight, the Conqueror strove in striving.

22.

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

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

23.

Saraṇa and Sabbakāma were the chief disciples;

Sāgara by name was the attendant of Sumedha, the great sage.

24.

Rāmā and Surāmā were the chief female disciples;

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

25.

Uruvelā and Yasavā were the chief male attendants;

Yasodharā and Sirimā were the chief female attendants.

26.

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

He illuminates all directions, as the moon the host of stars.

27.

Just as the jewel of a universal monarch shines for a yojana;

So too his jewel pervades a yojana all around.

28.

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

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

29.

With those possessing the threefold true knowledge and the six higher knowledges, those who had attained power, such ones;

This was crowded with Worthy Ones, good ones.

30.

They too, all of boundless glory, free, without clinging;

Having shown the light of knowledge, those of great fame were quenched.

31.

Sumedha, the supreme conqueror, the Buddha, attained final Nibbāna in Medhā Park;

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

The lineage of the Blessed One Sumedha is eleventh.

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