Cakkavattisutta 23
The Wheel-Turning Monarch 23
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23.1
40,000 years,
23.2
and finally 80,000 years.
23.3
Among the humans who live for 80,000 years, girls will be marriageable at five hundred.
7. The Time of King Saṅkha
23.5
Among the humans who live for 80,000 years, there will be just three afflictions: greed, starvation, and old age.
23.6
The Black Plum Tree Land will be successful and prosperous. The villages, towns, and capital cities will be no more than a chicken’s flight apart.
23.7
And the land will be so full of humans you’d think they were squashed together, like a thicket of rushes or reeds.
23.8
The royal capital will be Varanasi, renamed Ketumatī. And it will be successful and prosperous, populous and full of people, with plenty of food.
23.9
There will be 84,000 cities in the Black Plum Tree Land, with the royal capital of Ketumatī foremost.
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- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli
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- Cakkavattisutta — Pāli