The Coming Buddha,
Ariya Metteyya
Sayagyi U Chit Tin
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The
Wheel-turning Monarch Sankha
Namo Tassa
Bhagavato Arahatto Sammasambuddhassa
At this time,
there will be a Wheel-turning Monarch named Sankha.[79] In a past life,
he and his father had made a hut for a Pacceka Buddha. They had him stay
there for the three months of the rains retreat and then gave him three
robes. In the same way, they had seven Pacceka Buddhas stay in the hut.
The father and son[80] were reborn in the Tavatimsa Deva world, and
Sakka requested that the father be reborn in the human world as Prince
Maha-Panada. The architect for the Devas, Vissakamma, built a palace for
Maha-Panada. During the time of Buddha Gotama, Maha-Panada was the Elder
Bhaddaji, who, on one occasion, raised up the Maha-Panada palace from
the bottom of the Ganges. The palace still waits there for the future
Sanka, who was the son that gave to the Pacceka Buddhas in the past.[81]
When Sankha becomes the Wheel-turning
Monarch, he will raise up the Maha-Panada palace which will serve as his
palace in the centre of Ketumati. The palace is described as resplendent
with many jewels, so bright it is hard to look at.[82] And he will
possess the seven treasures of a Wheel-turning Monarch: the wheel,
elephant, horse, gem, wife, householder, and adviser.[83]
Through the merit of Sankha, there will
be a square in the middle of the city with four halls facing the four
directions with wishing trees. Hanging from the trees there will be all
sorts of fine garments, drums, and jewellery.
Through the merit of the people at that
time, there will be rice that grows without being cultivated. It will be
pure, sweet-smelling, and the grains will be ready-husked. The residents
of Ketumati will have whatever they want. They will be very rich. They
will wake up to the sound of drums and lutes. They will be exceedingly
happy in both body and mind.[84]
King Sankha's palace will have 84,000
dancing girls.[85] He will have one thousand sons, valiant, of heroic
forms, crushing enemy armies.[86] The eldest son[87] will be the king's
adviser. The king will conquer the seagirt land (of India) without
violence, without a sword, but rather by righteousness.
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FOOTNOTES:
- Not to be confused with the
Bodhisatta Sankha. According to Dbu, the future Sankha is a Deva
named Maha-Nalakara (cf. D-t 43). Nalakara was the name of
Maha-Panada in the Tavatimsa Deva world (Ja IV 318-323).
- The account in Ja No. 489 says the
father became Maha-Panada. Sv III 856 says it was the son and that
the father is still in the Deva worlds. D 43 gives his name as
Nalakara ("the basket maker") which would mean both father
and son had this name in the Deva worlds. Dvp (119-127/126-134)
gives their names as Nava-khuddhaka- Nalakara (or Cula-Nalakara),
meaning "the younger Nalakara," and Jetthaka-Nalakara (or
Jettha-Nalakara), meaning "the older Nalakara," so that
here too it is the father who will be the future Sankha.
- Sv Ill 856f. says that the palace has
not disappeared because of the meritorious act done by both the
father and son in the past. Thus, it awaits the future king, Sankha,
to be enjoyed by him.
- Anag vv 12-14. Cf. Th vv 163-164.
- In Dvp (125/132) his career as a
Wheel-turning Monarch is described as following the pattern for
other Monarchs (see DPPN II 1343ff.).
- Anag vv 27-32.
- Dbu 300/338. Th v 164: "6000
musicians danced there."
- D III 75 (DB III 73). This is a
common feature to all Wheel-turning Monarchs, see Sn p. 106 (GD 96).
- He will have the same name as the
Bodhisatta in that life: Ajita (according to Dbu 300/338).
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