Sālakusumiya Chapter, the Forty-Seventh
[458. {461.}1 Sālakusumiya2]
When the Blessed One passed away —
the one whose name was “Best Lotus” —
when the funeral pyre was raised,
I offered3 a sal-flower4 there. (1) [4864]
In the hundred thousand aeons
since I presented that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of worshipping5 pyres. (2) [4865]
My defilements are [now] burnt up;
all [new] existence is destroyed.
Knowing well all the defilements,
I am living without constraint. (3) [4866]
Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (4) [4867]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (5) [4868]
Thus indeed Venerable Sālakusumiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Sālakusumiya Thera is finished.