[208. Koraṇḍapupphiya1]
I saw the treading foot of the
Great Sage, [the Buddha] Vipassi,
who was going step after step;
[it] was lovely, marked with a wheel. (1) [2304]
Seeing a koraṇḍa2 flower
I offered it3 joined with its root.
Happy, [and] with a happy heart,
I worshipped [that] unsurpassed foot. (2) [2305]
In the ninety-one aeons since
I did pūjā [with] that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. (3) [2306]
In the fifty-seventh aeon
[hence] there was one Vītamala,4
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor of the seven gems. (4) [2307]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [2308]
Thus indeed Venerable Koraṇḍapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Koraṇḍapupphiya Thera is finished.