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lady.
He lived a household life for four thousand years. His three mansions were KÈma,
KÈmavaÓÓa and KÈmasuddhi.
His wife was RocinÊ, a brahmin lady, who had thirty thousand attendants. His son
was Uttara.
The vehicle He used in renunciation, after seeing the four omens, was a chariot
drawn by a thoroughbred horse. He practised
dukkaracariyÈ
for eight months.
His two male Chief Disciples were Vidhura Thera and SanjÊva Thera. His attendant
was Buddhija Thera.
His two female Chief Disciples were SÈmÈ TherÊ and CampÈ TherÊ.
His Bodhi tree was a
SirÊsa
.
His noble male supporters were the wealthy men, Accuta and SumanÈ. His noble
female supporters were Nanda UpÈsikÈ and Sunands UpÈsikÈ.
Buddha Kakusandha's height was forty cubits. The rays from His body spread
around, up to ten
yojanas
.
The human life span during His time was forty thousand years. He lived for four-
fifths of this life span rescuing such beings as devas, humans and BrahmÈs from
saÑsÈric
waters and placed them on NibbÈnic shores.
In the world of devas and humans, He opened the ‘shop of Dhamma’ for the
virtuous, male and female alike, and bravely roared a lion's roar: ‚I am an
Omniscient Buddha indeed. The defilements and mental intoxicants with their
latent tendencies have all been rooted out from Me.‛ After that, with His
arahat
-
disciples, Buddha Kakusandha attained ParinibbÈna.
SaÑvega
The Buddha, who was endowed with a voice of eight qualities
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, such as clearness,
sweetness, legibility, pleasantness, firmness, fullness, depth and echo, and His two Chief
Disciples and other
arahat
-disciples who were possessed of morality that was unbreached,
untorn, unmottled, and free at all times, they had all disappeared. Unsubstantial and futile
indeed are all conditioned things!
Cetiya
In this manner, Buddha Kakusandha attained ParinibbÈna in Khema Park. In that very
Park, a
cetiya
was erected over the relics of Buddha Kakusandha. It was exactly one
yojana
high.
Here ends Kakusandha BuddhavaÑsa.
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23. KOªŒGAMANA BUDDHAVA¥SA
After Buddha Kakusandha's attainment of ParinibbÈna, in the present
bhadda-kappa
, the
life span of human beings gradually decreased from forty thousand years to ten years and
increased to
asa~khyeyya
. When it reached thirty thousand years on its next decline,
Bodhisatta KoÓÈgamana, on his complete fulfilment of the Perfections was reborn in
TusitÈ. Having complied with the request made by devas and BrahmÈs to becoming a
Buddha, he descended to the human world to be conceived in the womb of a brahmin lady
named UttarÈ, wife of YaÒÒadatta Brahmin, in the city of Sobhavati. When ten months had
elapsed, he was born in SubhavatÊ Park.
At the time of the boy's birth, there fell a heavy shower of gold over the whole of
JambudÊpa and taking the significance of this event, ‚coming down of gold from
the sky‛, learned readers of omens and his relatives named him KanakagÈmana
15. Read Chapter VII, voice of eight quanties.