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1　… he spoke with a Brahmā-like voice: This is my final birth. (1)

2　…with musical instruments and laughter. || (2) Having seen this, … divine …

3　… they distinguished (?): If he stays at home, the seven jewels …

4　… (if), however, he leaves his home, he will attain the perfect status of Buddha (samyaksambodhi ). Thereupon this

5　… This one, at the age of twenty-nine, became appalled by old age and dying; at midnight 6　… Having rejected the doctrine of Ārāḍa, (4) Udraka and the other ṛṣis, (he) for six years (observed) the hard (5) to (observe austerity)

7　… having received from Nandā (6) and Nandabalā the rice pap, condensed sixteen times, (7) in the Bodhi forest,

8　he took his seat with firm (8) decisiveness on the diamond throne. (The army) of the god Māra, with his thirty-six myriads of companies, (9) (he defeated) …

YQ 1.9 1/2 [verso]