Prophetic text
Anāgatavaṃsa, in The Anāgatavaṃsa Revisited
Later Pali Buddhist poem; attribution uncertain in this packet · Text frames the Buddha as speaker; historical author not established
Later Metteyya narrative places advent later in this auspicious cycle after a crore-of-years interval, not a new cycle.
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Edition and location
K.R.Norman revision in JPTS28(2006)
Norman translation vv1–11, printedpp19–20; PDFpp25–26
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Edition and location
K. R. Norman, Journal of the Pali Text Society XXVIII (2006), pp. 1–37; edition and English translation
Translation v.5, printed p.19 (PDF page index 24); framing vv.1–4