ဘုရားအေလာင္းသည္ ရဟန္းျပဳၿပီးေနာက္ ၇ ရက္ေလာက္ၾကာေသာအခါ ရာဇၿဂိဳလ္ၿမိဳ႕သို႕ၾကြလာ၍ ဆြမ္းခံ၀င္ေတာ္မူ၏ ထိုေခတ္၌ ရေသ့ ရဟန္းဆိုသူတို႕၀ယ္ သပၸါယ္တင့္တယ္သူကို ေတြ႕ရခဲ၏. . . . မတင့္မတယ္ ႏွင့္ အရြယ္ၾကီးမ်ားကိုသာ အမ်ားအျပားေတြ႕ေနရေသာ ၿမိဳ႕သူၿမိဳ႕သားတို႕သည္ အရြယ္အားျဖင့္ ၂၉ ႏွစ္မွ်သာ ရွိေသး၍ စၾကာမင္း အမွတ္လကၡဏာ စံုလင္စြာပါေသာ ဘုရားအေလာင္းကို တအံ့တၾသ ၾကည့္ၾကေလသည္. . .
ဘုရားအေလာင္းသည္ ဆြမ္းခံၿပီးပ႑၀ေတာင္သို႕ ၾကြေတာ္မူကာ ဆြမ္းဘုဥ္းေပးေလရာ ဗိမၼိသာရမင္းလည္း ေရာက္လာ၍ ရုပ္လကၡဏာကို ျမင္ရုံျဖင့္ ဇာတ္ျမင့္ေသာ မင္းသားတစ္ပါးျဖစ္တန္ရာ၏ ဟု စဥ္းစားၿပီးလွ်င္ ထီးနန္း စည္းစိမ္ကို လဲႊအပ္ေလသည္. . ဘုရားအေလာင္းသည္ ထီးနန္းစည္းစိမ္ မလိုလားဘဲ ဘုရားျဖစ္လိုေၾကာင္းကို မိန္႕ေတာ္မူလွ်င္ ဘုရားျဖစ္ေသာ အခါ ပထမၾကြလာဘို႕ရန္ ေတာင္းပန္လိုက္ေလသည္။
Now the future Buddha, having thus retired thus from the world and become an ascetic fro about 7 days, entered the city of Rajagaha and begged for food from house to house. By the beauty of the Future Buddha the whole city was thrown into a commotion as he was a distinct ontrast to the usual type of ascetics of those days, who were old and shabby in appearance. The Future Buddha being then only 29 years of age and bearing all the signs of a Universal Monarch naturally became an object of admiration and wonder.
Now the Great Being having collected some food for his sustenance went to the shade of Pandava rock and ate his meal. Thereupon, Bimbisara, the King approached the Future Buddha, and being pleased with his princely deportment and appearance offered him all his kingly glory. "Great King" , replied the Future Buddha, "I do not seek for the gratification of my senses or my passions, but have retired from the world for the sake of supreme and absolute enlightenment of a Buddha."
"Verily, " said the King when his repeated offers had all been refused, "you are sure to become a Buddha: but when that happens your first journey will be to my Kindom".
အားလံုးကိုခ်စ္ခင္ေလးစားလွ်က္...ဘုရားအေလာင္းသည္ ဆြမ္းခံၿပီးပ႑၀ေတာင္သို႕ ၾကြေတာ္မူကာ ဆြမ္းဘုဥ္းေပးေလရာ ဗိမၼိသာရမင္းလည္း ေရာက္လာ၍ ရုပ္လကၡဏာကို ျမင္ရုံျဖင့္ ဇာတ္ျမင့္ေသာ မင္းသားတစ္ပါးျဖစ္တန္ရာ၏ ဟု စဥ္းစားၿပီးလွ်င္ ထီးနန္း စည္းစိမ္ကို လဲႊအပ္ေလသည္. . ဘုရားအေလာင္းသည္ ထီးနန္းစည္းစိမ္ မလိုလားဘဲ ဘုရားျဖစ္လိုေၾကာင္းကို မိန္႕ေတာ္မူလွ်င္ ဘုရားျဖစ္ေသာ အခါ ပထမၾကြလာဘို႕ရန္ ေတာင္းပန္လိုက္ေလသည္။
KING BIMBISARA OFFERING ALL HIS KINGLY GLORY
Now the future Buddha, having thus retired thus from the world and become an ascetic fro about 7 days, entered the city of Rajagaha and begged for food from house to house. By the beauty of the Future Buddha the whole city was thrown into a commotion as he was a distinct ontrast to the usual type of ascetics of those days, who were old and shabby in appearance. The Future Buddha being then only 29 years of age and bearing all the signs of a Universal Monarch naturally became an object of admiration and wonder.
Now the Great Being having collected some food for his sustenance went to the shade of Pandava rock and ate his meal. Thereupon, Bimbisara, the King approached the Future Buddha, and being pleased with his princely deportment and appearance offered him all his kingly glory. "Great King" , replied the Future Buddha, "I do not seek for the gratification of my senses or my passions, but have retired from the world for the sake of supreme and absolute enlightenment of a Buddha."
"Verily, " said the King when his repeated offers had all been refused, "you are sure to become a Buddha: but when that happens your first journey will be to my Kindom".
