Dipavamsa, the Chronicle of the Island

The Chonicle of the Island - 76
65. bhāsitena saha pañhe: na me diṭṭhaṁ na me sutaṁ,
pariyāpuṇāmi taṁ mantaṁ, pabbajjā mama ruccati. 173 |
65. When the question had been pronounced, (Tissa said:) “That I have neither
seen nor heard; I will learn this Mantra, I desire to receive the Pabbajjā
ordination.”
66. sambādhāya gharāvāsā nikkamitvāna māṇavo
anagāriyaṁ santibhāvaṁ pabbaji jinasāsane. 174 |
66. Leaving the narrow way of the life of a layman, the youth went forth into
the houseless state and to the condition of calm, according to the Jina’s faith.
67. sikkhākāmaṁ garucittaṁ Candavajjo bahussuto
anusāsittha sāmaṇeraṁ navaṅgaṁ satthusāsanaṁ, |
67. The disciple, desirous of learning and full of reverence, was taught the ninefold
doctrine of the Teacher by learned Candavajjī.
68. Siggavo nīharitvāna pabbajjāpesi dārakaṁ,
susikkhitaṁ mantadharaṁ Candavajjo bahussuto
navaṅgaṁ anusāsetvā therā te parinibbutā ’ti. | [39]
68. Siggava who had vanquished the young man, conferred on him the Pabbajjā
ordination; learned Candavajjī taught the well trained (disciple), versed in the
Vedas, the nine-fold (doctrine); (having done so,) these Theras attained
Parinibbāna.
69. Candaguttassa dvevasse catusaṭṭhi ca Siggavo tadā,
aṭṭhapaññāsa vassāni Pakuṇḍakassa rājino,
upasampanno Moggaliputto Siggavatherasantike. |
69. 175 Two years of Candagutta, fifty-eight of king Pakuṇḍaka having elapsed,
Siggava having just completed his sixty-fourth year, Moggaliputta received from
Thera Siggava the Upasampadā ordination.
173 bhāsitena saha pañhena?
174 sambādhasmā?
175 In the following account, some of the numbers mentioned are evidently wrong; I
have preferred, however, not to correct them, since the cause of these errors may be
attributed to the author as to copyists.