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190. Tivaṇṭipupphiya

Tha-ap 192

A mountain summit emerging above thinning cloud and an alpine meadow.

Walt 2208 All of them, gathered together,
are looking at me, overwhelmed.
Burning was produced in the minds
of those people who are looking. Verse 1

Walt 2209 At that time a follower of
Buddha Dhammadassi, the Sage,
known by the name of Sunanda
came into my vicinity. Verse 2

Walt 2210 Those who were my associates
gave me a flower at that time.
Taking that flower they’d given,
I gave it to the follower. Verse 3

Walt 2211 I passed away right on the spot
and then was reborn yet again.
In eighteen hundred aeons hence
I went into no place of grief. Verse 4

Walt 2212 In the thirteen hundredth aeon,
there were eight Dhūmaketunas,
wheel-turning monarchs with great strength,
possessors of the seven gems. Verse 5

Walt 2213 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 6

Thus indeed Venerable Tivaṇṭipupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Tivaṇṭipupphiya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Kuṭaja and Bandhujīvi,
Koṭumbarika, Hatthiya,
Isimugga and then Bodhī,
Ekacinti, Tikaṇṇika,
Ekacārī and Tivaṇṭī,
sixty two verses are told here.

The Kuṭajapupphiya Chapter, the Nineteenth.

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Translation by Jonathan S. Walters · SuttaCentral · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US

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Translated by Jonathan S. Walters.

Whitman College, 2017

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