[114. Ekāsaniya1]
Back then I was the king of gods,
known by the name of Varuṇa.
I attended the Sambuddha,
as his vehicle of power. (1) [1707]
When Atthadassi, the Best Man,
Lord of the World, reached nirvana,
supplying all the turiyas,
I went to the best Bodhi [tree]. (2) [1708]
As though facing the Sambuddha
I attended on the best Bodhi,
with music and with dances [too,]
well-accompanied by cymbals.2 (3) [1709]
After having served that Bodhi
tree growing up from the earth [there],
having eaten, with [my] legs crossed,
I passed away [right] on the spot. (4) [1710]
Delighting in [my] own karma,
pleased in that superb Bodhi [tree],
due to that pleasure in [my] heart,
I have achieved nirvana [now]. (5) [1711]
[And] sixty thousand instruments3
are attending me all the time
as I move on from birth to birth
among humans and also gods. (6) [1712]
The three fires4 are blown out in me;
all [new] existence is destroyed.
I am bearing my last body
in the Buddha’s5 dispensation. (7) [1713]
In the five hundredth aeon hence
there were thirty-four kṣatriyans
[all of whom] were named Subahū,6
possessors of the seven gems. (8) [1714]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (9) [1715]
Thus indeed Venerable Ekāsaniya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Ekāsaniya Thera is finished.