[13. Nanda]
Padumuttara’s khoma cloth1
I gave to the Self-Become One,
the Sage So Great, the Blessed One,
the Best in the World, Neutral One. (1) [700]
Then Buddha, named for the lotus2
made this prophesy about me:
“due to giving this piece of cloth
you will have the color of gold. (2) [701]
Experiencing two-fold bliss3
incited by [your] wholesome roots
you will be the younger brother
of Gotama the Blessed One. (3) [702]
Happy by nature but lustful,
[you] will be greedy for pleasures.
Being incited by Buddha
you will then go forth, renouncing. (4) [703]
After you’ve renounced the world there,
incited by [your] wholesome roots,
knowing well all the defilements.
you’ll reach nirvana, undefiled.” (5) [704]
In the seven-thousandth4 aeon
there were four with the name CChela;5
sixty thousand aeons [ago]
there were four named Upacchela;6 (6) [705]
in the five-thousandth aeon ago
there were four people [named] CChela;
they were rulers of the four continents
possessors of the seven gems. (7) [706]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (8) [707]
Thus indeed Venerable Nanda Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Nanda Thera is finished.
reading vattham khomam (BJTS, cty) for vatthuttaman (“excellent cloth” PTS)↩
PTS reads jalajuttamanāyako, “Ultimate Lord of Water-Born Beings;” I follow BJTS and cty in reading jalajuttamanāmako, “named for the ultimate thing born of the water [i.e., a lotus].” This Buddha’s name, “Padumuttara,” means “Supreme Lotus”.↩
as a god, and as a man↩
BJTS reads “in the hundred-thousandth”.↩
“Cloth”↩
“Additional Cloth”↩