358. {361.} Ekamandāriya (THA-AP363)

Coming here from Tāvatiṁsa,
I was a man named Maṅgala.
Taking a mandārava bloom,
I carried it over the head
of Vipassi Buddha, Great Sage,
seated then in meditation.
I carried it thus for a week,
then returned to the world of gods.

In the ninety-one aeons since
I did pūjā to the Buddha,
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 Ekamandāriya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Ekamandāriya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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