210. Vātātapanivāriya (THA-AP212)

With a mind which was very clear,
I gave a single umbrella
to the Blessed One named Tissa,
the God of Gods, the Neutral One.

The badness in me is suppressed;
there is achievement of goodness.
Umbrella carried in the sky:
the fruit of previous karma.

This is my last transmigration,
all existences are canceled.
I now possess my last body
in the Buddha’s dispensation.

In the ninety-two aeons since
I gave that umbrella back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of umbrella-gifts.

The seventy-second aeon hence
there were eight lords of the people,
all known as Mahānidāna,
kings who were wheel-turning monarchs.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Vātātapanivāriya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Vātātapanivāriya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kaṇikāra and Vinela,
and Kiṅkinī with Taraṇa,
Nigguṇḍipuppha, ‘dakada,
Salaḷa and Koraṇḍaka,
Ādhāraka, Vātātapa:
there are eight and forty verses.

Kaṇikārapupphiya Chapter, the Twenty-First

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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