Daily Chanting (a book of daily worship)

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Wednesday
Āṇakkhettaparittaṁ, 2
Safeguard in this Order’s Domain
Paṇidhānato paṭṭhāya, Tathāgatassa dasapāramiyo,
Beginning with the aspiration (for Buddhahood, and thinking of) the Realised One’s ten
perfections,
dasa-upapāramiyo, dasaparamatthapāramiyo - samatiṁsapāramiyo -
ten minor perfections, ten great perfections - altogether thirty perfections -
pañcamahāpariccāge, tisso cariyā, pacchimabhave gabbhāvakkantiṁ, jātiṁ,
his five great sacrifices, three ways of conduct, descent into the womb for his final existence,
birth,
Abhinikkhamanaṁ, padhānacariyaṁ, Bodhipallaṅkaṁ, Māravijayaṁ,
Great Renunciation, life of effort, sitting cross legged at the Bodhi tree, victory over Māra,
sabbaññutañāṇapaṭivedhaṁ, navalokuttaradhamme ti,
his penetration and knowledge of omniscience, and his nine supermundane attainments,
sabbe pime Buddhaguṇe āvajjitvā, Vesāliyaṁ tīsu pākārantaresu,
and after considering all these Buddha qualities, (going round) the three walls of Vesāli,
tiyāmarattiṁ, parittaṁ karonto āyasmā Ānandatthero,
during the three watches of the night, the venerable elder Ānanda,
viya kāruññacittaṁ upaṭṭhapetvā:
after establishing great compassion in his heart, made this safeguard:
Koṭisatasahassesu cakkavāḷesu devatā
The gods in the ten hundred thousand million universes
yassāṇaṁ patigaṇhanti yañ-ca Vesāliyaṁ pure,
accepted the order (given) in the city of Vesāli,
rogāmanussadubbhikkha sambhūtaṁ tividhaṁ bhayaṁ,
and disease, non-human beings, and famine, the threefold fear that had arisen,
khippam-antaradhāpesi, parittaṁ taṁ bhaṇāmahe:
quickly disappeared, we will recite that safeguard: