455. {458.} Jātipupphiya (THA-AP460)

When the Blessed One passed away,
Padumuttara, Greatly Famed,
putting flowers into a box,
I offered them to the relics.

Bringing pleasure to my heart there,
I went to Nimmāna heaven.
Residing in the world of gods,
I remembered my good karma.

From the sky a rain of flowers
is raining on me all the time.
Transmigrating among humans,
I was a king who had great fame.

In that place a rain of flowers
is raining on me every day,
due to that flower-offering
to the One Who Sees Everything.

This is the final time for me;
my last rebirth is proceeding.
Even today, a flower-rain
is raining on me every day.

In the hundred thousand aeons
since I presented that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of relic-worship.

My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint.

Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught!

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

Thus indeed Venerable Jātipupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Jātipupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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