118. Maggasaññaka (THA-AP120)

Padumuttara Buddha’s own
followers, who were forest-monks,
were lost in a giant forest,
wandering there like they were blind.

Calling to mind the Sambuddha,
Padumuttara, the Leader,
and they who were that Sage’s sons,
lost in the great forest by then,

descending from my residence
I went to where the monks were then
and having shown the road to them
I also gave them food to eat.

Due to that deed for the Biped-Lord,
the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,
being only seven years old,
I attained my arahantship.

In the five hundredth aeon hence,
there were twelve wheel-turning monarchs
known by the name of Sacakkhu
possessors of the seven gems.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Maggasaññaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Maggasaññaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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