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208. Koraṇḍapupphiya

Tha-ap 210

Two mature trees growing beside each other on a quiet meadow edge.

Walt 2304I saw the treading foot of the
Great Sage, the Buddha Vipassi,
who was going step after step;
it was lovely, marked with a wheel. Verse 1

Walt 2305 Seeing a koraṇḍa flower
I offered it joined with its root.
Happy, and with a happy heart,
I worshipped that unsurpassed foot. Verse 2

Walt 2306 In the ninety-one aeons since
I did pūjā with that flower,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. Verse 3

Walt 2307 In the fifty-seventh aeon
hence there was one Vītamala,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor of the seven gems. Verse 4

Walt 2308 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Koraṇḍapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Koraṇḍapupphiya Thera is finished.

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

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Whitman College, 2017

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