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Him with celestial flowers, etc., and various sounds of celestial music. Then the Buddha
made a prophetic declaration: ‚This Sakka will indeed become a Buddha, Gotama by name,
in future.‛
Having heard Buddha DhammadassÊ’s prophecy, Sakka the Bodhisatta, became extremely
pleased and resolved to fulfil the Perfections even more energetically.
Particulars of Buddha DhammadassÊ
Buddha DhammadassÊ's birthplace was Sarana City. His father was King Sarana
and His mother was Queen SunandÈ.
He reigned for eight thousand years. His three palaces were Araja, Viraja and
Sudassana.
His Chief Consort was Vicikoli who had forty-three thousand maids of honour.
His son was PuÒÒavaddhana.
The vehicle He used in renunciation, after seeing the four omens, was a palace. He
practised
dukkaracariyÈ
for seven days.
His two male Chief Disciples were Paduma Thera and Phussa Thera. His attendant
was Sunetta Thera.
His two female Chief Disciples were KhemÈ TherÊ and Saccanama TherÊ.
His Bodhi tree was a
BimbijÈla
.
His noble male lay supporters were the wealthy persons Subhadda and Katissaha.
His noble female lay supporters were SÈliya UpÈsikÈ and KaliyÈ UpÈsikÈ.
Buddha DhammadassÊ, who had as His equals only peerless Buddhas, was eighty
cubits tall. He was glorious with power in the ten-thousand world-system.
Buddha DhammadassÊ was majestic like the
sÈla
tree in full bloom or like the
lightning or the sun at midday that brighten the sky.
Buddha DhammadassÊ, who was endowed with unparallel might and the five eyes,
lived the whole life span of His time which was one hundred thousand years.
SaÑvega
Having displayed His power and knowledge and purified His Teaching so that it had no
stain, the Buddha attained ParinibbÈna with His
arahat
-disciples and disappeared (like the
moon had vanished after shining in the sky.)
CetÊya
In this way, the greatly energetic Buddha DhammadassÊ attained ParinibbÈna at
SÈla
Park,
in the city of SÈlavati. A three
yojanas
high
cetiya
was erected in the park and dedicated to
Him.
Here ends DhammadassÊ
BuddhavaÑsa
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16. SIDDHATTHA BUDDHAVA¥SA
After the aeon in which Buddha DhammadassÊ appeared had come to an end, there
elapsed, one after another, one thousand seven hundred and six aeons. Then ninety-four
aeons ago, from now, there appeared one and the only Buddha, Siddhattha by name.
The chronicle of Buddha Siddhattha goes like this. At that time, ninety-four aeons ago,
when the life span of human beings decreased from
asa~khyeyyas
to a hundred thousand
years. Bodhisatta Siddhattha, on complete fulfilment of the Perfections, was reborn in
TusitÈ, a common practice of Bodhisattas. Having accepted the request made by devas and
BrahmÈs, he descended to the human world to be conceived in the womb of Queen
Suphassa, Chief Consort of King Udena, in the city of Vebhara. When ten months had
elapsed, the Bodhisatta was born in VÊriya Park.
On his naming day, learned readers of omens, and his relatives, named him Siddhattha