Walt 4833 The world had turned to burning coal,
the earth was mixed with hot embers.
Padumuttara, Blessed One,
walked back and forth in open air. Verse 1Walt 4834 Carrying a white umbrella,
I proceeded along a road.
Having seen the Sambuddha there,
I experienced happiness. Verse 2Walt 4835 “The ground is full of the sun’s rays;
this earth is like burning charcoal.
The gusty winds that are blowing
deplete the breath of the body. Verse 3Walt 4836 Please accept this, my umbrella,
which blocks the sun’s heat and the winds,
killing both the heat and the cold;
through it I will touch nirvana.” Verse 4Walt 4837 Merciful, Compassionate One,
Padumuttara, Greatly Famed,
discerning what I was thinking,
the Victor then accepted it. Verse 5Walt 4838 Lord of gods for thirty aeons,
I exercised divine rule then,
and five hundred different times,
I was a king who turns the wheel. Verse 6Walt 4839 There was also much local rule,
innumerable by counting.
I’m enjoying my own karma,
formerly well-done by myself. Verse 7Walt 4840 This is the final time for me;
my last rebirth is proceeding.
Even now a white umbrella
is carried for me all the time. Verse 8Walt 4841 In the hundred thousand aeons
since I gave that umbrella then,
I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:
the fruit of giving umbrellas. Verse 9Walt 4842 My defilements are now burnt up;
all new existence is destroyed.
Like elephants with broken chains,
I am living without constraint. Verse 10Walt 4843 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 11Walt 4844 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 12
Thus indeed Venerable Ekachattiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Ekachattiya Thera is finished.