Walt 1282 There was a Bodhi Tree festival
for Padumuttara Buddha.
Taking a decorated pot,
I donated scented water. Verse 1Walt 1283 When that Bodhi was being bathed
a huge cloud rained down upon it.
And there was a deafening sound
when the lightening bolts burst forth there. Verse 2Walt 1284 Due to the force of that lightening
I passed away right then and there.
Standing in the world of the gods
I uttered these verses aloud: Verse 3Walt 1285 “O! the Buddha! O! the Teaching!
O! our Teacher’s great achievement!
My dead body has fallen down
and I now delight in heaven! Verse 4Walt 1286 My residence is very tall,
rising up one hundred stories.
A hundred thousand virgins now
are around me all of the time. Verse 5Walt 1287 Disease does not exist for me;
grief too does not exist for me;
I do not experience pain:
that is the fruit of good karma.” Verse 6Walt 1288 Twenty eight hundred aeons thence
I was named King Saṁvasita,
a wheel-turner with great power,
possessor of the seven gems. Verse 7Walt 1289 The four analytical modes,
and these eight deliverances,
six special knowledges mastered,
I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 8
Thus indeed Venerable Gandhodakiya Thera spoke these verses.
The legend of Gandhodaka Thera is finished.