203. Kiṅkaṇikapupphiya (THA-AP205)

Very Valuable Like Gold,
Omniscient One, Lord of the World,
the Lord of the World, took a bath,
plunging into a water-tank.

Cheerful, with my mind enraptured,
taking a kiṅkhaṇi flower,
I gave it to Vipassi then
the Biped Lord, the Neutral One.

In the ninety-one aeons since
I did pūjā with that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.

Seventy-seven aeons hence
there was a king, Bhīmaratha,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor 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 Kiṅkaṇikapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kiṅkaṇikapupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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