[255. Sattapāṭaliya1]
Seven trumpet-flower2 blossoms
I [then] offered to the Buddha,
shining like a dinner-plate tree,3
sitting down within a mountain. (1) [2515]
In the ninety-four aeons since
I did pūjā [with] that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. (2) [2516]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (3) [2517]
Thus indeed Venerable Sattapāṭaliya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Sattapāṭaliya Thera is finished.
“Seven-Trumpet-Flower-er”↩
pāṭali is Sinh. paḷol, Bignonia suaveolens, sterospermum suaveolens (Bignon.), trumpet-flower tree, the Bodhi Tree of Vipassi Buddha. Cf. #71, #78, #96, #248, #369{372}.↩
kaṇṇikāra, kaṇikāra = Sinhala kinihiriya, Pterospermum acerifolium, produces a brilliant mass of yellow flowers; Engl. a.k.a. karnikar, bayur tree, maple-leaf bayur, caniyar (now archaic?), dinner-plate tree; Bodhi tree of Siddhattha Buddha.↩