[153. Vīthisammajjaka1]
[I saw] the World-Chief setting out
like the rising hundred-rayed [sun],
like the [mid-day] yellow-rayed sun,
like the moon2 on the fifteenth [day].3(1) [2007]
There were sixty-eight thousand [monks],
who’d all destroyed the defilements,
surrounding the Sambuddha [then],
the Biped-Lord, the Bull of Men. (2) [2008]
After I had swept that road for
the World-Leader, the Charioteer,
I [then] raised up a banner there,
with a mind that was very clear. (3) [2009]
In the ninety-one aeons since
I offered that banner [to him,]
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving banners. (4) [2010]
In the fourth aeon [after that]
I was a king with great power,
who was famous as Sudhaja4
and was endowed with every sign. (5) [2011]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (6) [2012]
Thus indeed Venerable Vīthisammajjaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Vīthisammajjaka Thera is finished.