100. Buddhūpaṭṭhāka (THA-AP102)

Back then I was the conch-blower
for Vipassi, the Blessed One,
constantly engaged in service
to the Well-Gone One, the Great Sage.

Look at the fruit of that service
to the Neutral One, the World-Chief:
sixty thousand turiya-drums
are constantly attending me.

In the ninety-one aeons since
I served the Great Sage in that way,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of doing service.

In the twenty-fourth aeon hence
there were sixteen different kings then;
all were named Mahānigghosa,
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength.

The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught!

Thus indeed Venerable Buddhūpaṭṭhāka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Buddhūpaṭṭhāka Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Sudhāpiṇḍa and Cela too,
Kammāra, Gandhamāliya,
Tipupphiya, Madhu, Senā,
Veyyāvacca and Dhammaka:
exactly sixty verses are
related in this chapter.

The Sudhā Chapter, the Tenth.

Then there is the Summary of Chapters:

Buddha Chapter is the first,
Sīhāsani, Subhūti,
Kuṇḍa-Dhāna and Upāli,
Vījani and Sakacittani,
Nāgasamāla, Timira,
with Sudhā Chapter they are ten.
There are fourteen hundred verses
plus another fifty-five.

The Ten Chapters called Buddha.

The First Hundred is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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