186. Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka

Tha-ap 188

A river divides around a wooded island and joins again beyond it.

Walt 2181 In the city, Rammavati,
I was a man named Muraja.
Committed to ceaseless service,
I went to the great Bodhi tree. Verse 1

Walt 2182 Morning and evening exerting,
incited by those happy roots,
throughout eighteen hundred aeons
I was not born in a bad state. Verse 2

Walt 2183 In the fifteen hundredth aeon
I was a king, ruler of men,
known by the name of Damatha,
a wheel-turning king with great strength. Verse 3

Walt 2184 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Bodhiupaṭṭhāyaka Thera is finished.

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