794 Pali Buddhistical Annals. £&££?. 



The genealogy of the twenty-third Buddha. 

 " Subsequent to Kakusandho Bhagawi and to the extinction of his religion, 

 when the term of human existence extended to thirty thousand years, the divine sage 

 Kona'gamano, whose heart was always benevolently inclined to others, was mani- 

 fested. 



" U might appear from this statement that the term of human existence was gra- 

 dually curtailed; but such was not the case. Be it understood, that it had been 

 curtailed, and having been augmented was again reduced. For example in this kappo 

 the Bhagawa Kakusandho was born, whose allotted term of existence was for- 

 ty thousand years. That term of existence gradually decreasing was reduced to a 

 term of ten years ; and subsequently increasing again to an Asankheyyan, and from 

 that point again diminishing, had arrived at the term of thirty thousand years. Be 

 it understood, that it was at that conjuncture that the Bhagawa Ko'na'gamano 

 was born. That personage having fulfilled his probationary courses, and been? 

 regenerated in the Tusitapura Dewaloko, and having demised there, was conceived ia 

 the womb of Uttara', a lovely and youthful brahmani, the consort of the brahmaa 

 Annadatto of the city Sobhawatte ; and at the termination of ten months issued 

 forth from the womb of his mother, in the Sobhawatte pleasure garden. 



" At the instant of his birth, throughout Jambudipo, a golden shower (kanakawas~ 

 sin) descended ; and from that circumstance he acquired the appellation of Kana- 

 ka'gamano, which name of his, by process of change, became Ko'na'gamano. 



" He lived in the domestic relations of a layman for three thousand years, and he 

 had three palaces, Tusitd, Santasita and Santuttho, and sixteen thousand women, of 

 whom the brahman Ruchiganttha' was his principal consort. Having been visit- 

 ed by the four prescribed warnings, on the birth of his son Sattawa'ho by Ru- 

 chiganttha', mounting his superb state elephant, and taking his final departure 

 (from wordly grandeur) he entered into priesthood ; and his thirty thousand follow- 

 ers following his example, also entered into the sacerdotal order. 



" Having for four months (singly) undergone the probationary ordeals, and having 

 on the full moon day of the month of wesako, partaken of the rice sweetened by being 

 boiled in milk, which was offered to him by the daughter of the brahman Aggise'no, 

 and enjoyed his noonday rest on the Khadira forest, in the afternoon, accepting 

 the eight bundles of grass which were presented to him by Tinduko, a cultivator, — 

 approaching (unattended) from the southward his sacred tree, the udumbaro, (Ficus 

 glomerata) — which was adorned with fruit as described in the instance of the 

 pundarika tree, — and spreading out a* sward carpet twenty cubits in breadth, 

 seated on that throne, he annihilated the power of death, by attaining the wisdom 

 of the ten powers (Buddhohood) and he chaunted forth the Udanan. 



11 Passing there seven times seven days, and having by his inspiration seen the 

 proficiency of the thirty thousand bhikkhus who were ordained at the same time as 

 himself, — rising aloft into the air he descended at the Isipatancin near the city 

 Sudassano* . 



'* Alighting in the midst of them, he proclaimed the supremacy of his faith ; and on 

 that occasion he procured for a thousand kotiyo of living beings the first stage of 

 sanctification. Subsequently performing a miracle, productive of two conflicting 

 results, at the foot of the great salo tree, at the gate of Sundaranagaran he admi- 

 nistered dhammo, the draught of heaven, to twenty thousand" kotiyo of living 

 beings ; and procured for them the second stasre of sanctification j and on the occa- 

 sion of this Bhagawa expounding the Abhidhanmopitako to his mother Uttara' 

 and the dhoata of the hundred thousand Chakkawalttni, who had assembled for thst 

 purpose, ten thousand kotiyo of living beings attained the third stage of sancti- 

 fication. " 



* The name of Benares at that time. 



