Once upon a time, the Metteyya Bodhisatta was reborn as Ajita-kumāra in the time of Gotama Buddha. He was ordained as a novice and became a monk in the Buddha’s school. One day Pajāpatī offered a robe to the Buddha specifically, but he rejected and told Pajāpatī to offer the robe to a monk within the monastic community randomly. Ajita received the robe, and the Buddha predicted that he would become a buddha named “Metteyya” in the future.
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[The writing of this manuscript] was completed at the time of the morning drum.
Nibbāna paccayo hotu no niccaṃ dhuvaṃ dhuvaṃ.