Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.527

v2.c29.527

Every Buddha founds an Order; the first pātimokkhuddesagāthā of every Buddha is the same.⁵³ The attainment of arahantship is always the aim of the Buddha’s instruction.⁵⁴ Beings can obtain the four abhiññā only during the lifetime of a Buddha.⁵⁵ A Buddha has ten powers (balāni) which consist of his perfect comprehension in ten fields of knowledge,⁵⁶ and physical strength equal to that of one hundred thousand crores of elephants.⁵⁷ He alone can digest the food of the devas or food which contains the ojā put into it by the devas. No one else can eat with impunity the food which has been set apart for the Buddha.⁵⁸ Besides these excellences, a Buddha possesses the four assurances (vesārajjāni),⁵⁹ the eighteen āveṇikadhammā,⁶⁰ and the sixteen anuttariyas.⁶¹ The remembrance of former births a Buddha shares with six classes of purified beings, only in a higher degree. This faculty is possessed in ascending scale by titthiyā, pakatisāvakā, mahāsāvakā, aggasāvakā, pacceka-buddhā and buddhā.⁶²