Tha Ap 210Koraṇḍapupphiya

– Therāpadāna

– The Legends of the Theras

208. Koraṇḍapupphiya

Walt 2304 I saw the treading foot of the

Great Sage, the Buddha Vipassi,

who was going step after step;

it was lovely, marked with a wheel. Verse 1

Walt 2305 Seeing a koraṇḍa flower

I offered it joined with its root.

Happy, and with a happy heart,

I worshipped that unsurpassed foot. Verse 2

Walt 2306 In the ninety-one 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 2307 In the fifty-seventh aeon

hence there was one Vītamala,

a wheel-turning king with great strength,

possessor of the seven gems. Verse 4

Walt 2308 The four analytical modes,

and these eight deliverances,

six special knowledges mastered,

I have done what the Buddha taught! Verse 5

Thus indeed Venerable Koraṇḍapupphiya Thera spoke these verses.

The legend of Koraṇḍapupphiya Thera is finished.

Translated by Jonathan S. Walters .

Whitman College, 2017

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