Dighanikaya 20.331_13

20.331_13

Evaṃ osīdamatte pana tasmiṃ ariyamaṇḍale pācīnayugandharaparikkhepato abbhā, mahikā, dhūmo, rajo, rāhūti imehi upakkilesehi vippamuttaṃ buddhuppādapaṭimaṇḍitassa lokassa rāmaṇeyyakadassanatthaṃ pācīnadisāya ukkhittarajatamayamahāādāsamaṇḍalaṃ viya, nemivaṭṭiyaṃ gahetvā parivattiyamānarajatacakkasassirikaṃ puṇṇacandamaṇḍalaṃ ullaṅghitvā anilapathaṃ paṭipajjittha. Iti evarūpe khaṇe laye muhutte bhagavā sakkesu viharati kapilavatthusmiṃ mahāvane mahatā bhikkhusaṅghena saddhiṃ pañcamattehi bhikkhusatehi sabbeheva arahantehi.

While that circle of noble ones was sitting thus, the disk of the full moon—freed from the obscurations of clouds, mist, smoke, dust, and Rāhu; appearing like a great silver mirror held up in the eastern direction to display the loveliness of the world adorned by the arising of a Buddha; radiant as a silver wheel being turned by grasping the rim—rose up beyond the enclosure of Mount Yugandhara in the east and entered the path of the wind. Thus, at such a moment, instant, and fraction of an hour, the Blessed One was dwelling among the Sakyans at Kapilavatthu in the Great Forest together with a great Saṅgha of monks, with about five hundred monks, all of them arahants.