186. Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka (THA-AP188)

In the city, Rammavati,
I was a man named Muraja.
Committed to ceaseless service,
I went to the great Bodhi tree.

Morning and evening exerting,
incited by those happy roots,
throughout eighteen hundred aeons
I was not born in a bad state.

In the fifteen hundredth aeon
I was a king, ruler of men,
known by the name of Damatha,
a wheel-turning king 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 Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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