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The Chronicle of the Buddha Sobhita
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Concentrated, with peaceful mind, matchless, without equal.
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Having attained consummate enlightenment, he set in motion the wheel of the Teaching.
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In between here, there was one assembly, at the teaching of the Dhamma.
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The first full realization was not to be told by counting.
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For ninety thousand crores, there was the second full realization.
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Having planted a park, he then dedicated it to the Buddha.
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Then of a thousand koṭis, there was the third full realization.
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Of those who had eliminated the mental corruptions, spotless ones, of peaceful minds, such ones.
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At that gift, a hundred koṭis of Worthy Ones assembled.
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Then the second meeting was of ninety koṭis.
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Then there was the third meeting of eighty koṭis.
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Then I satisfied the Buddha together with his disciples with food and drink.
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"Immeasurable cosmic cycles from now, this one will be a Buddha.
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For the attainment of that very purpose, I made fierce energy.
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The mother was named Sudhammā, of the great sage Sobhita.
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Kumuda, Nāḷina, and Paduma, three excellent mansions.
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Maṇilā was the name of that woman, Sīha was her son.
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For seven days the striving conduct, having practised, the highest of men.
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The great hero turned the wheel, in the excellent Sudhamma park.
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Anoma by name was the attendant of the great sage Sobhita.
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And that Buddha, while awakening, was awakened at the foot of a nāga tree.
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Nakulā and Cittā were the chief female attendants.
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It illuminates all directions, like the risen sun.
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So too his Scriptures, perfumed with the fragrance of morality.
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So too his Scriptures, are not satiable by hearing.
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Remaining for that long, he helped many people to cross.
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Having scorched like fire, he, together with his disciples, attained final Nibbāna.
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All that has disappeared, are not all activities empty?
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There was a wide-spread distribution of relics in those various regions.
The lineage of the Blessed One Sobhita is sixth.