15: The Buddha’s Visit to Rājagaha – 547
Tiṇṇo tiṇṇehi saha purāṇa-jaṭilehi, vippamutto vippamuttehi,
siṅgī-nikkhasu-vaṇṇo, Rājagahaṁ pāvisi Bhagavā.
Countrymen, the exalted Buddha, possessing the yellow colour of the best
refined gold, at the request of the King of Magadha, with his two feet
moving like the sun and the moon, has entered the city of Rājagaha
together with the 1,000 Arahats, former recluses whom the Buddha,
having himself crossed over the four violent floods and reached the other
shore, has conveyed them also over the four violent floods to the other
shore by giving them the beautiful eightfold mechanized vehicle; whom
the Buddha, the leading bull – himself released from the three states of
existences and the three cycles of suffering – has released from those
states of existences and cycles of suffering by teaching the essence of
Dhamma.
Santo santehi saha purāṇa-jaṭilehi, vippamutto vippamuttehi,
siṅgī-nikkhasa-vaṇṇo, Rājagahaṁ pāvisi Bhagavā.
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Countrymen, the exalted Buddha, possessing the yellow colour of the best
refined gold, at the request of the King of Magadha, with his two feet
moving like the sun and the moon, has entered the city of Rājagaha
together with the 1,000 Arahats, former recluses whom the Buddha
himself calmed, are who are devoid of the heat of the defilements, calmed
with the entire heat of defilements removed by sharing with them the
waters of deathlessness; whom the Buddha, the leading bull – himself
released from the three states of existences and the three cycles of
suffering – has released from those states of existences and cycles of
suffering by teaching the essence of Dhamma.
Dasa-vāso dasa-balo, dasa-dhamma-vidū dasabhi cupeto,
so dasa-sata-parivāro Rājagahaṁ pāvisi Bhagavā.
Countrymen, the exalted Buddha, who is endowed with the ten
deportments of the noble ones, the tenfold physical strength, and the
tenfold cognitive strength, who perfectly comprehends the ten ways of
accomplishing deeds (
kamma-patha
), who is possessed of the ten
characteristics of Arahats, at the request of the Magadha King, with his
two feet moving like the sun and the moon, has entered the city of
Rājagaha, being accompanied by the 1,000 Arahats, former recluses.