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His three palaces were Sucandaka, Giri and Vāsabha.
His chief consort was Sabbakāmā, who had 24,000 maids of honour.
His son was Prince Atula.
He renounced the world riding an elephant after seeing the four omens.
He practised the austerities for eight months.
His two male chief disciples were Ven. Abhibhū and Ven. Sambhava.
His attendant was Ven. Khemaṅkara.
His two female chief disciples were Ven. Sakhilā and Ven. Padumā.
His Bodhi tree was a Fragrant Mango tree (
Puṇḍarīka
).
His noble male supporters were the wealthy men, Sirivaḍḍha and Nanda.
His noble female supporters were Cittā and Suguttā.
Buddha Sikhī was 70 cubits tall. He was like a golden column, created as an
object of worship. He was beautiful with the 32 marks of a Great Man.
Buddha Sikhī’s normal physical radiance shone everywhere, day and night,
uninterruptedly as far as 30 leagues, which could illuminate several world-
elements, if he so desired.
The lifespan during Buddha Sikhī’s time was 7,000 years. Living for four-fifths
of this lifespan, he conveyed beings, such as humans, Devas and Brahmas, from
the flood-waters of Saṁsāra and placed them on the shore of Nibbāna.
Causing the rain of Dhamma, Buddha Sikhī had all beings drenched with the
pure water of Dhamma, let them reach Nibbāna, which is the end of repeated
suffering, and together with his Arahat disciples attained Parinibbāna.
The Buddha’s physical frame, which possessed the 80 minor signs, such as red
fingers and toe nails and adorned with the 32 marks of a Great Man, has
completely vanished. Unsubstantial and futile are all conditioned things!
Buddha Sikhī attained Parinibbāna in the Park named Assa, near Sīlavatī city.
The Buddha’s relics remained in a mass without dispersing. The people of
Jambudīpa constructed for their honour a memorial shrine of the seven kinds of
jewels three leagues high.
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