Karmashataka 17.20

17.20

པ་གང་ཡིན་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་དེ་བདག་གིས་མཉེས་པར་བྱེད་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག །མི་མཉེས་པར་བྱེད་པར་མ་གྱུར་ཅིག །དེ་ཁོ་ནའི་བསྟན་པ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་སྤངས་ཏེ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་ཉིད་མངོན་སུམ་དུ་བྱེད་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག་ཅེས་བྱས་པ་དེས་ན། དགེ་སློང་དག་ང་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་འོད་སྲུང་དང་ཤིན་ཏུ་མཉམ་པ་དང་ཤུགས་མཉམ་པ་དང་མཛད་པ་མཉམ་པ་དང་ཐབས་མཉམ་པ་བརྙེས་པར་གྱུར་ནས། འདིས་ང་མཉེས་པར་བྱས་ཏེ་མི་མཉེས་པར་མ་བྱས་ལ། ང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་ལ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱུང་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་

prophesied by the totally and completely awakened Buddha Kāśyapa to be the next blessed buddha. Going forth in his doctrine alone may I cast away all afflictive emotions, and manifest arhatship.’

“So it is, monks, now that I myself have become the very equal of the totally and completely awakened Buddha Kāśyapa—equal in strength, equal in deeds, and equal in skillful means—that he has pleased me, not displeased me, gone forth in my very doctrine, cast away all afflictive emotions, and manifested arhatship.”

The Story of Kṣemaṅkara

When the Blessed One was in Śrāvastī, King Prasenajit reigned in the city of Śrāvastī, and King Brahmadatta reigned in Vārāṇasī. The two did not agree with one another, and at various times a great many people were killed.

One day King Brahmadatta arrayed the four divisions of his army—the elephant division, the horse division, the chariot division, and the infantry division—and advanced on the kingdom of King Prasenajit to wage war. King Brahmadatta made camp and stayed on the banks of the Ajiravatī River. King Prasenajit heard that Brahmadatta, King of Kāśi, had arrayed the four divisions of his army to wage war, had made camp, and was staying on the banks of the Ajiravatī River, so he also arrayed the four divisions of his army and advanced toward King Brahmadatta to wage war and made camp, staying on the banks of the Ajiravatī River. Over time, many people were slaughtered as the two groups camped there. Both sides were powerful, and neither could defeat the other.