Tha Ap 209Salaḷamāliya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

207. Salaḷamāliya

Walt 2299 I saw Siddhattha, the Trainer,

seated on a mountainside then,

shining like a dinner-plate tree,

surveying every direction. Verse 1

Walt 2300 Gathering both ends of a bow,

then I joined it with an arrow.

Cutting a flower with its stalk,

I offered it to the Buddha. Verse 2

Walt 2301 In the ninety-four aeons since

I did pūjā with that flower,

I’ve come to know no bad rebirth:

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

Walt 2302 In the fifty-first aeon hence

there was one named Jutindhara,

a wheel-turning king with great strength,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 4

Walt 2303 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Salaḷamāliya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Salaḷamāliya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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