[185. Isimuggadāyaka[1]]
Like the rising hundred-rayed [sun],
like the sun [when it] had risen,
shining like royal ornaments,
the Lord was Padumuttara. (1) [2175]
Grinding up[2] [some] sage’s mung beans
in bee’s honey devoid of bees,[3]
being established in pleasure,
I gave them to the World’s Kinsman. (2) [2176]
Eight hundred thousand followers
of the Buddha [were with him] then.
Filling the bowls of all of them,
[I provided] a huge amount. (3) [2177]
Because of that mental pleasure,
incited by those happy roots,
for one hundred thousand aeons
I was not born in a bad state.[4] (4) [2178]
In the forty-thousandth aeon
[ago], they [numbered] thirty-eight,
those wheel-turning kings with great strength,
whose names were Mahisamanta.[5] (5) [2179]
The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
[I have] done what the Buddha taught! (6) [2180]
Thus indeed Venerable Isimuggadāyaka Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Isimuggadāyaka Thera is finished.