477. {480.} Pulinacaṅkamiya (THA-AP482)

In the past, in a forest grove,
I was a man who hunted deer.
Searching after a vāta-deer,
I saw the Buddha’s walkway there.

Happy, with pleasure in my heart,
taking sand in my lap-pocket,
I sprinkled it on the walkway
of the Well-Gone One, Splendid One.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I sprinkled that sand at that time,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of giving sand.

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 Pulinacaṅkamiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Pulinacaṅkamiya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Naḷamālī, Maṇidada,
Ukkāsatika, Vījanī,
Kummāsa and Kusaṭṭha too,
also Giripunnāgiya,
Vallikāra, Pānadhida
and then Pulīnacaṅkama:
five and ninety are the verses
that are counted by those who know.

The Naḷamāli Chapter, the Forty-Eighth

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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