354. {357.} Supuṭakapūjaka (THA-AP359)

Going out after his siesta,
Vipassi Buddha, World-Leader,
wandering about for alms food,
came into my presence back then.

After that, happy, exulted,
giving a good bag full of salt
to the World’s Best, the Neutral One,
I joyed an aeon in heaven.

In the ninety-one aeons since
I gave the Buddha that good bag,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of a good bag-gift.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Supuṭakapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Supuṭakapūjaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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