320. Kumudamāliya (THA-AP322)

Taking a white lotus bloom I
laid it before the Best Buddha,
Sacrificial Recipient,
the Bull, Excellent One, Hero,
Victorious One, the Great Sage,
Vipassi Buddha, Great Hero,
like a lion which is well-born.

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.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Kumudamāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Kumudamāliya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Arakkhada, Bhojanada,
Gatasaññi and Padumika,
Pupphâsani, Santhavaka,
Saddasañi, Tiraṁsiya,
Kandali and Komudi too:
there are fifty-seven verses.

The Ārakkhadāya Chapter, the Thirty-Second

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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