290. Pubbaṅgamaniya (THA-AP292)

Eighty-four thousand great people
renounced the world, nothing at all.
I gave precedence to them then,
wishing for the ultimate goal.

In this world of lust and being,
they carefully attended on
the Undisturbed One, Lucid One,
feeling well-pleased by their own hands.

Their Faults Destroyed, Defects Expelled,
they Did their Duty, Free of Fault,
Pervading all with Loving Hearts,
Self-Become Ones, Unconquered Ones;

remembering those Sambuddhas,
having given service to them,
when the time of my death arrived,
I went to divine existence.

In the ninety-four aeons since
I protected morals back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of being restrained.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Pubbaṅgamaniya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pubbaṅgamaniya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Paṇṇa, Phala, Uggamiya,
Ekapupphi, and Maghava,
Upaṭṭhāka’s apadāna,
Pabbajja and Upaṭṭhaha,
and Pubbaṅgama; the verses
are counted as forty and eight.

The Paṇṇadāyaka Chapter, the Twenty-Ninth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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