Mahapadanasutta 3.30
Mahāpadānasutta 3.30
- Language
- Pāli
3.30.1
Tasmiṃyeva kho, bhikkhave, devanikāye anekāni devatāsahassāni anekāni devatāsatasahassāni yenāhaṃ tenupasaṅkamiṃsu; upasaṅkamitvā maṃ abhivādetvā ekamantaṃ aṭṭhaṃsu. Ekamantaṃ ṭhitā kho, bhikkhave, tā devatā maṃ etadavocuṃ:
In that order of gods, many thousands, many hundreds of thousands of deities approached me, bowed, stood to one side, and said to me,
3.30.2
‘imasmiṃyeva kho, mārisā, bhaddakappe bhagavā etarahi arahaṃ sammāsambuddho loke uppanno.
‘In the present fortunate eon, good fellow, you have arisen in the world, perfected and fully awakened.
3.30.3
Bhagavā, mārisā, khattiyo jātiyā khattiyakule uppanno.
You were born as an aristocrat into an aristocrat family.
3.30.4
Bhagavā, mārisā, gotamo gottena.
Gotama is your clan.
3.30.5
Bhagavato, mārisā, appakaṃ āyuppamāṇaṃ parittaṃ lahukaṃ yo ciraṃ jīvati, so vassasataṃ appaṃ vā bhiyyo.
For you the lifespan is short, brief, and fleeting. A long life is a hundred years or a little more.
3.30.6
Bhagavā, mārisā, assatthassa mūle abhisambuddho.
You were awakened at the root of a peepal tree.
3.30.7
Bhagavato, mārisā, sāriputtamoggallānaṃ nāma sāvakayugaṃ ahosi aggaṃ bhaddayugaṃ.
You have a fine pair of chief disciples named Sāriputta and Moggallāna.
3.30.8
Bhagavato, mārisā, eko sāvakānaṃ sannipāto ahosi aḍḍhateḷasāni bhikkhusatāni. Bhagavato, mārisā, ayaṃ eko sāvakānaṃ sannipāto ahosi sabbesaṃyeva khīṇāsavānaṃ.
You have had one gathering of disciples—1,250 mendicants who had ended their defilements.
3.30.9
Bhagavato, mārisā, ānando nāma bhikkhu upaṭṭhāko ahosi aggupaṭṭhāko.
You have as chief attendant a mendicant named Ānanda.
3.30.10
Bhagavato, mārisā, suddhodano nāma rājā pitā ahosi.
Your father was King Suddhodana,
3.30.11
Māyā nāma devī mātā ahosi janetti.
your birth mother was Queen Māyā,
3.30.12
Kapilavatthu nāma nagaraṃ rājadhānī ahosi.
and your capital city was Kapilavatthu.
3.30.13
Bhagavato, mārisā, evaṃ abhinikkhamanaṃ ahosi evaṃ pabbajjā evaṃ padhānaṃ evaṃ abhisambodhi evaṃ dhammacakkappavattanaṃ.
And such was your renunciation, such your going forth, such your striving, such your awakening, and such your rolling forth of the Wheel of Dhamma.
3.30.14
Te mayaṃ, mārisā, bhagavati brahmacariyaṃ caritvā kāmesu kāmacchandaṃ virājetvā idhūpapannā’ti.
And good fellow, after leading the spiritual life under you we lost our desire for sensual pleasures and were reborn here.’
Translations (3)
- Die große Lehrrede über hinterlassene Spuren — German
- The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind — English
- Dugi govor o velikom podvigu — sr
Linked texts (6)
- 長阿含經 — Classical Chinese
- 毘婆尸佛經 — Classical Chinese
- Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names — G. P. Malalasekera, English
- Die Kosmographie der Inder nach den Quellen dargestellt — Willibald Kirfel, German
- Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. — J. P. Sharma, English
- Buddhist India — T. W. Rhys Davids, English