Tha Ap 166Desapūjaka

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

164. Desapūjaka

Walt 2067 Atthadassi, the Blessed One,

the World’s Best One, the Bull of Men,

having risen into the sky

was going through the air back then . Verse 1

Walt 2068 I did pūjā to the place where

the Teacher had been standing when

he, the Sage so Great, rose upward,

feeling well- pleased by my own hands. Verse 2

Walt 2069 In the eighteen hundred aeons

since I saw the Great Sage back then ,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

that’s the fruit of region- pūjā . Verse 3

Walt 2070 In the eleven-hundredth aeon

I was known as Gosujāta,

a wheel-turning king with great strength,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 4

Walt 2071 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Desapūjaka Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Desapūjaka Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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