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280. Taraṇiya

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A weathered wooden water bucket beside split firewood on damp stone.

Walt 2619 On a rough spot on the highway,
I caused a bridge to be fashioned
for the sake of the world’s crossing,
feeling well-pleased by my own hands. Verse 1

Walt 2620 In the ninety-one aeons since
that bridge got constructed by me,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of giving a bridge. Verse 2

Walt 2621 In the fifty-fifth aeon hence
there was one man, Samogadha,
a wheel-turning king with great strength,
possessor of the seven gems. Verse 3

Walt 2622 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 4

Thus indeed Venerable Taraṇiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Taraṇiya Thera is finished.

The Summary:

Sovaṇṇa and Tilamuṭṭhi,
Caṅkot’, Abbhañjam, Añjali,
Potthaka, Citaka, Māla,
Ekapuṇḍari, Setuna:
when the verses are counted by
wise people there are forty-two.

The Suvaṇṇabimbohana Chapter, the Twenty-Eighth

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Whitman College, 2017

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