105. Muṭṭhipupphiya (THA-AP107)

I was a garland-maker then
who was known as Sudassana.
I saw the Buddha, Stainless One,
the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men.

Picking up a jasmine flower,
happy and with my eyes most clear
I worshipped Padumuttara,
the Divine-Eyed-One who had come.

Because of that Buddha-pūjā
and the resolve in my own heart,
for one hundred thousand aeons
I came into no bad rebirth.

There were sixteen different kings then,
all were known as Devuttara,
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength,
in the thirty-sixth aeon hence.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Muṭṭhipupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Muṭṭhipupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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