92. Sucintita (THA-AP94)

Happy, and with a happy heart,
I gave a new auspicious chair
to Tissa the Lord of the World,
the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun.

Eight and thirty aeons ago
I was the king, Mahāruci.
There were lots of riches for me
and many beds to sit upon.

Having given Buddha a chair
with a mind that was very clear,
I experienced my own karma
well-done by myself formerly.

In the ninety-two aeons since
I gifted him that chair back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that is the fruit of a chair-gift.

Eight and thirty aeons ago
there were three wheel-turning monarchs:
Ruci and Uparuci too,
and Mahāruci was the third.

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

Thus indeed Venerable Sucintita Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Sucintita Thera is finished

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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