8: The Buddha’s Stay at the Seven Places – 412
Shining brightly, the red radiance, that is like the powder of red-lead,
molten lac, China Rose, the flower of the noon flower (
bandhu-jīvaka
),
the flower of the Indian coral tree (
pārijāta
), making the surface of land
and water and the whole sky red, has been spreading since the day the
Buddha reflected on the Causal Relations (
Paṭṭhāna
) up till now.
Besides, from the various unascertainable spots of the Buddha’s body
emanated the radiance of light and dark colours (
mañjeṭṭha
) resulting
from a mixture of black, red and blue and the radiance of sparkling,
flaming and glittering hues (
pabhassara
) about the size of a house or a
mountain. Shining brightly, the radiance, like the lighting in the sky
during the month of May (
Vesākha
) or like the skin of playful insects, or
sparks of a blazing fire, has been spreading since the day the Buddha
reflected on the Causal Relations (
Paṭṭhāna
) up till now.
Evaṁ chabbaṇṇa-raṁsiyo etā yāvajja-vāsarā
sabbā disā vidhāvanti pabhā nassanti tatthikā.
Thus the six radiances of blue, gold, white, red, pink and glittering colours
shine in the directions of all ten quarters at the same time as the Buddha’s
teaching still shines forth. The radiance of the body and the glory of those
Devas and Brahmas, that happened to be at the wish-fulfilling trees
(
kappa-rukkha
), gardens and mansions which were along the course of the
Buddha’s six radiances and which could illuminate the entire 10,000
world-element, only by means of their ten fingers, disappeared as they
were not capable of outshining the radiance from the Buddha.
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Iti chabbaṇṇaraṁ sittā Aṅgīraso ti nāmaso,
loke patthaṭa-guṇaṁ taṁ vande Buddhaṁ namassiyaṁ.
To the Buddha, lord of the world, who has earned the name Aṅgīrasa
because he possessed the radiance of six colours in the aforesaid manner,
who is endowed with a good reputation spreading throughout the three
worlds, who is worthy of the honour done to him by the whole world, who
knows the four noble truths thoroughly as though they were written on
the palm of his hands, like a lively ruby, the so-called ‘I,’ whose body on
contemplation is found to be composed of 32 portions of a dirty,
disgusting nature, that ‘I’ pays homage repeatedly in full faith with my
head bowing, recalling the time when the Lord was still alive.