Tamālapupphiya Chapter, the Twentieth
[191. Tamālapupphiya1]
My magically-made mansion,
with eighty-four lakhs of pillars,
was a [lovely] golden [color],
the equal of a divine tree.2 (1) [2214]
Plucking a tamāla flower
with a mind [which was] very clear,
I offered [it] to the Buddha
Sikhi, the Kinsman of the World. (2) [2215]
in the thirty-one aeons since
I did that [good] karma then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. (3) [2216]
In the twentieth aeon ago
there was one [named] CChandatitta,3
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor of the seven gems. (4) [2217]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [2218]
Thus indeed Venerable Tamālapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Tamālapupphiya Thera is finished.