Walt 4346 At that time I contemplated
birth and decrepitude and death.
Going out from the home alone,
I went forth into homelessness. Verse 1Walt 4347 In the course of wandering, I
came to the banks of a river.
There on the riverbank I saw
a piece of earth in all fullness. Verse 2Walt 4348 Fashioning a hermitage there,
I’m living in the hermitage.
My walkway is well-constructed,
housing flocks of various birds. Verse 3Walt 4349 Trustingly they come up to me,
and sing their lovely songs to me.
Delighting there along with them,
I’m living in the hermitage. Verse 4Walt 4350 Near that hermitage of mine were
wild beasts of four different kinds,
who came out of their forest haunts
and roared for me like the thunder. Verse 5Walt 4351 When those wild beasts were making sounds,
great mirth was then produced in me.
While searching for those animals,
I saw the Leader of the World. Verse 6Walt 4352 Then having seen the God of Gods,
Tissa, Chief Leader of the World,
happy, and with a happy heart,
I offered ironwood pollen. Verse 7Walt 4353 I praised the Leader of the World,
like the sun when it is rising,
like a regal sal tree in bloom,
shining forth like the morning star: Verse 8Walt 4354 “Omniscient One, with your knowledge,
you light up this world with its gods.
After having made you happy,
they’re liberated from rebirth. Verse 9Walt 4355 Omniscient One, through not seeing
the Buddhas who see everything,
those obstructed by lust and hate
descend into avīci hell. Verse 10Walt 4356 Coming to take a look at you,
Omniscient One, O World-Leader,
they are freed from all existence,
and realize the deathless state. Verse 11Walt 4357 When the Buddhas, the Eyeful Ones,
the Light-Bringers are arising,
they display the light of the truth,
burning up all the defilements.” Verse 12Walt 4358 After praising the Sambuddha,
Tissa, Chief Leader of the World,
happy, and with a happy heart,
I offered Arab jasmine blooms. Verse 13Walt 4359 Discerning what I was thinking,
Tissa, Chief Leader of the World,
sitting down there on his own seat,
spoke these verses about me then: Verse 14Walt 4360 “He who covered me with flowers,
feeling well-pleased by his own hands,
I shall relate details of him;
all of you listen to my words: Verse 15Walt 4361 Twenty-five times he’s going to
exercise rule over the gods,
and seventy-five times he’ll be
a king who turns the wheel of law. Verse 16Walt 4362 And there will be much local rule,
innumerable by counting,
as a result of his karma
of doing pūjā with flowers. Verse 17Walt 4363 When this person has bathed his head,
if he wishes for a flower,
then bound up with his good karma,
it will appear in front of him. Verse 18Walt 4364 Whatever’s wished for through desires,
that all is going to appear.
Having fulfilled his intentions,
he’ll reach nirvana, undefiled. Verse 19Walt 4365 The eighteenth recitation portion
Having burnt up the defilements,
attentive and intelligent,
sitting down on a single seat,
he will attain arahantship.” Verse 20Walt 4366 Walking back and forth, lying down,
sitting down or else standing up,
remembering the Best Buddha,
I am living all of the time. Verse 21Walt 4367 There’s no deficiency for me
in robes and food that I beg for,
in requisites and bed-and-seat:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. Verse 22Walt 4368 Now deathlessness has been attained,
the unsurpassed great state of peace.
Knowing well all the defilements,
I am living without constraint. Verse 23Walt 4369 In the ninety-two aeons since
I did pūjā to the Buddha,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
that’s the fruit of Buddha-pūjā. Verse 24Walt 4370 My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. Verse 25Walt 4371 Being in Best Buddha’s presence
was a very good thing for me.
The three knowledges are attained;
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 26Walt 4372 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 27
Thus indeed Venerable Tiṇasūlakachādaniya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Tiṇasūlakachādaniya Thera is finished.