517. {520.} Padumadhāriya (THA-AP522)

Close to the Himalayan range,
there’s a mountain named Romasa.
The Buddha known as Sambhava
then dwelt there in the open air.

Coming out of my residence,
I brought him a lotus flower.
Having brought a single one,
I went forward into rebirth.

In the thirty-one aeons since
I offered him that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā.

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 Padumadhāriya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Padumadhāriya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kureñjiya and Kapittha,
Kosumbha, also Ketaka,
Nāgapupph’, also Ajjuna,
Kuṭajī, Ghosasaññaka,
and Sabbaphalada Thera,
then Padumadhārika tenth:
there are eighty verses here, plus
three verses more than that number.

The Kureñjiyaphaladāyaka Chapter, the Fifty-Second

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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