[210. Vātātapanivāriya1]
With a mind [which was] very clear,
I gave a single umbrella
to the Blessed One [named] Tissa,
the God of Gods, the Neutral One. (1) [2313]
The badness2 in me is suppressed;
there is achievement of goodness.3
Umbrella carried in the sky:4
the fruit of previous karma. (2) [2314]
[This is] my last transmigration,
all existences are canceled.
I [now] possess my last body
in the Buddha’s5 dispensation. (3) [2315]
In the ninety-two aeons since
I gave that umbrella back then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of umbrella-gifts. (4) [2316]
The seventy-second aeon hence
there were eight lords of the people,
[all] known as Mahānidāna,6
kings who were wheel-turning monarchs. (5) [2317]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (6) [2318]
Thus indeed Venerable Vātātapanivāriya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Vātātapanivāriya Thera is finished.
The Summary:
Kaṇikāra and Vinela,
and Kiṅkinī with Taraṇa,
Nigguṇḍipuppha, ‘dakada,
Salaḷa and Koraṇḍaka,
Ādhāraka, Vātātapa:
there are eight and forty verses.
Kaṇikārapupphiya Chapter, the Twenty-First